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 87
... marriage . But genre is flexible : " courtship story , " " novel of sensibility " and " Gothic tale " are interchangeable terms for much of the fiction of the later eighteenth century . By then , the novel had become for many as ...
... marriage arrived . Willoughby then wrote to desire his sister would excuse his devoting only a single day to her on that occasion : he would attend he said to give her away , 1 but was obliged by indispensable business to return ...
... marriage of a man of so much consequence in the neighbourhood would not fail to be inserted . No such intelligence however appeared ; and Celestina , imagining that the marriage had notwithstanding certainly taken place , endeav- oured ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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