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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 79
... given to her son , ever the object of her tenderest affections . What passed was known only to Willoughby , who , the moment his mother was no more , gave way to such an excess of sorrow , as deprived him for some hours of his sens- es ...
... given , and given at such a time , to her dear deceased benefactress . " No ! my brother , " said she , " she is dead , but my obligations to her can never be annihilated ; and what would become of me , were I ever to feel myself ...
... given my hand to one to whom my heart must ever be a stranger : and yet , Celestina , if to this I ever do submit , it will only be to enable me to place you in the situation you deserve as to fortune , and because it matters not , if I ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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