CelestinaBroadview Press, 25 באוק׳ 2004 - 603 עמודים Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel’s reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author’s life. |
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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 89
... brother , who had now been some time of age , was so bigoted to his books that he could not leave them for longer than a day even on such an occasion ; but his pleasures and hers differed so greatly , and their tempers and pursuits were ...
... brother , who when we went away had cham- bers in the Temple ; and to discover what was become of my dear Frank , whom we had left at school , and to whom I was always fond- ly attached . Poor Emily too recurred to me , but for her ...
... brother left him at his lodgings , whither he was immediately conveyed , and where he was attended by an eminent surgeon . “ And is he in danger , Sir ? ” said Celestina , with all that tremulous tenderness in her voice that her extreme ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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