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 77
... felt their interruption as a favour . " During this dialogue Celestina had walked rather quickly towards the house , so that they were by this time within sight of the garden gate , from whence Captain and Miss Thorold advanced slowly ...
... felt , be incomplete if both or either of them were unhap- py ; and unhappy he thought they must be if they lived not for each other . Whatever scheme therefore interfered with a union he so much desired , he felt as a sort of injury to ...
... felt for me fraternal affection , or even the regard of long acquain- tance , even what his mother's ward might claim from him , I think I should be comparatively happy , and should have no farther wish than to hear sometimes from ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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