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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... hear it , for it must be owned that this business , George , has advanced but slowly . Well ! so now ' tis to be done directly ? The old peer was quite frisky upon it , and forgot his asthma and his gout to stand till I was tired of ...
... hear the incidents of a life , that has , I think , been marked with some singular occurrence , I shall have a melancholy pleasure in relating them . " " Nothing would oblige me so much , " said Willoughby , whose curiosity had been ...
... hear with pleasure ; unless indeed that he is well ; that I always wish to hear ! And I think , " added she , her heart swelling as she said it , " I think I should sincerely rejoice to hear , that in his new situation , he is happy ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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