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 79
... knew you hold in such ten- der veneration ; I could not determine to raise in your delicate and sensible mind doubts ... knew the task I undertook ; yet with anguish and depression , to which no words can do justice , I set about it . My ...
... knew , that after having taken her as her daughter , and accustomed her to share all the indulgencies which her own rank and income procured , it would be a very painful reverse of fortune were she to leave her in the narrow ...
... knew he was expected at the house of his uncle , his unwillingness to go increased . Farnham , who now anxiously watched all his looks , saw a deeper gloom come upon him : he saw him take out several letters , read them , replace them ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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