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 85
... fortune by marriage : she had therefore learned early to fawn and flatter ; and to the cun- ning of her mother united some portion of the abilities of her father . Mrs. Maclaurin was one of that species of being who are by cour- tesy ...
... fortune were she to leave her in the narrow circumstances in which she found her . To save much out of her jointure had never been her wish , and was hardly now in her power . Her own fortune , in default of children , returned to her ...
... fortune , if I remained single , than if I gave my hand where I have no power to bestow my heart ? " " I am amazed ... fortune . In a twelve - month afterwards , the death of his elder brother and an uncle gave him a very large fortune ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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