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
... hour before his excellent parent expired . As she had before taken leave of her daughter and Celestina , the greater part of that melancholy hour was given to her son , ever the object of her tenderest affections . What passed was known ...
... hour , in a state of mind difficult to be described : the danger to which Celestina must be exposed , alone and unprotected ; the probability of his losing her for ever ; nay of her sacrificing herself to one of those pretenders whom he ...
... hour , returned by his directions to inform her , that he was gone on horseback to Exeter to meet some people who ... hours . Celestina knew , from his own account , every circumstance of his fortune ; she knew that except the mortgages ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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