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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... father in law , but on his death it became the right of the eldest son , who had a number of children ; and as my father's family were all irritated and disappointed by the obstinate resent- ment of my grandfather towards his daughter ...
... father's great friend had by this time so compleately ruined himself , that every thing was seized and he left the country . My father having no longer a house to be at , was forced to live at home ; but it was only for a little while ...
... father with a sad presentiment that we were to meet no more , and I dreaded my introduction to the father of my husband . But I loved him ; he was the most cheerful and sanguine creature in the world ; and painted to me only scenes of ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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