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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 75
... determined to declare myself in writing to that effect . ” Celestina , whom this speech was not calculated to calm , answered , trembling " Indeed I think you wrong , Mr. Willoughby . As your uncle , as your mother's brother , Lord ...
... determined as she was to impede every advance towards a reconcil- iation between her brother and Celestina , made no scruple , on hear- ing from whom it came , to open , read , and , after some consideration , to destroy it . Of the ...
... determine , at once , how he should do this ; and what he had most immediately to consider was , how he should escape the enquiry and adieu of the heiress , which he might now every moment expect . He at length determined to go to bed ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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