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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... lived with me almost twelve months , 1 is the sister of your Mrs. Elphinstone , and of that Cathcart whom Willoughby ... lived with you . " " Yes , she has lived with me some time , though I did not till late- 1 Smith leaves many years ...
... lived there many years . " " And where is the castle of Rochemarte ? " enquired Willoughby . " It is almost close to the convent , ” replied Le Laurier , “ and if you wish to see them both I will wait upon you thither tomorrow ...
... lived to see a diffu- sion of knowledge , which has undermined superstition and error- I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever ; and nations panting for liberty , which seemed to have lost the idea of it . I ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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