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 51
... desired I would meet him at the chambers of Edwards , our mutual attorney , where in spite of my resistance , he paid me the money which you know I lent him , with the interest , with as much regu- larity as if I had fixed that time for ...
... desired me to sit down . " Some remains of natural affection , which , in a young man , is very rarely totally extinguished , seemed to be contending with pride , avarice , and mean policy , and for a while kept him silent : he then ...
... desired to have no other witness to her sorrows , than the soft hearted and pitying friend , without whose generous sympathy she would probably long before have sunk under them . It was near two months since the death of Elphinstone ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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