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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... hope , that by becoming necessary to my mistress , I should obtain an encrease of wages , out of which I thought it possible that I might be able to save something : but the upper servant took pains to render all my endeavours ...
... hope of his recov- ery , when my lovely infant was seized with the same terrible disor- der ; and I was told , that as it was almost always fatal to children , I must not hope . " I know not , then , what became of me ; but I think ...
... hope he clung for some hours of the morn- ing ; but it insensibly became fainter as his impatience encreased , and at length he ordered Farnham to find the coachman of Lady Hora- tia , with whom he was acquainted , and try to discover ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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