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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... engaged friends to go with her on these expeditions , but had always found the difficulties they made so much counterbalance the plea- sure they were capable of affording her , that she now travelled alone . " Some , " said she , " were ...
... engaged to Mr.Thorold : nor is it likely I ever shall be engaged to him ; and farther , I again protest to you , that did no such person exist it would make no difference in the resolution I have made never to listen to the offers with ...
... engaged ; something might have prevented her writing . To this slender hope he clung for some hours of the morn- ing ; but it insensibly became fainter as his impatience encreased , and at length he ordered Farnham to find the coachman ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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