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 82
... heard there was no danger ; and as he was of course satisfied , I came off to England the next day , hav- ing taken my passage some time before . " " Your folks here at home never heard of the hazard you ran ? " " No , I believe not ...
... heard t'other day ; didn't we Muzzy ? " " Faith I don't know whether we did or no , Jacky Boy , till you tell me what it was we heard . " " Why we heard - Lord why ' twas that night we drank tea and supped , you know , with that there ...
... heard female voices talking low and plaintively . The evening was so pro- foundly still that we heard every leaf that quivered in the scarcely- perceptible air ; and these voices we now lost , now heard more dis- tinctly , till at ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
4 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים