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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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 81
... idea , she shrunk with terror from its supposed reality , and pale and trembling drew back , as he eagerly advanced towards her : - " My heavenly girl ! my own Celestina ! " cried he as he took her hand . This address , from the married ...
... idea I had of my poor Emily's misfor- tune , was , when on awaking one morning I found she was already risen , contrary to her usual custom . I was not , however , alarmed , till , on beginning to dress myself , I found the drawers ...
... idea of that relationship of which it spoke , he had nothing to offer against it ; and could only sigh over the incurable unhappiness with which he saw the future days of friends he so much loved would be clouded . Silently they all ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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