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 66
... manner and extravagance of expression , Celestina now thought it better to put an end to such very warm applications , by shewing him the little value in her eyes of the favour he solicited . She gave him the paper , therefore , saying ...
... manner in which she uttered these few words , as , trembling and faint , she advanced towards the door , alarmed and surprised Lady Horatia . She saw , however , by the countenance of Montague Thorold , that he could explain the cause ...
... manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives . The institutions of policy , the goods of for- tune , the gifts of Providence , are handed down , to us and from us , in the same course and order . Our political system ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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