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 58
... look on the man sufficiently expressive of the contempt she felt for him : but he was not of a humour to be easily daunted or repulsed , and without seeming to understand her , began , with purse - proud pertness to relate as if it was ...
... look which seemed to say " Humph— it is true , then , that you are violently in love with this brother of mine " : and then answered- " The surgeon , on whose skill I have great reason to rely , does not seem to think him in danger ...
... look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors . Besides , the people of England well know , that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation , and a sure principle of transmission ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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