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
... mind , to estrange her entirely from those scenes where Celestina had sometimes formerly seen her ; and that having lost an only daughter , ( the last of her chil- dren , ) of a deep decline , 1 she now tried to call off her mind from ...
... mind with new power . There , she thought her sad heart might be laid open to the pitying sympathy of her first and most beloved friend , and find some satisfaction amidst its own disappointments in witnessing the happiness of that ...
... mind , the orphan left at the convent of Hieres , and taken by an English lady , abruptly mentioned , the effect would have been much greater . The mind of the reader would have been at once diverted from the attention bestowed on the ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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