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 88
... early 1790s , the minting of that metaphor could have come only from an astute and imaginative political thinker . Consonant with the Revolution's ideals too , a spirit of interna- tionalism prevails towards the close . When Celestina ...
... early death the rural poet lamented in the inscription . " Merciful heaven ! " cried she , " is early death ever really to be lamented ? and should I not be happier to die now than to live ; as perhaps I shall not be forgotten ...
... Early I hope , " replied she ; and to avoid all farther questions has- tened away . The next day passed quietly enough : for Mrs. Thorold , sure of being delivered from a visitor who had never been agreeable and was now uneasy to her ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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