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 77
... morning of Wednesday : sometimes reflecting with the bitterest regret on the different prospects which were before her on the Wednesday of the preceding week , and sometimes bewildering herself in conjectures , on the cause of their ...
... morning . Celestina early on that morning arose to write the letter she had long meditated to Willoughby . She was not able to give such reasons for her quitting Mr. Thorold as he could not disapprove ; and though he might perhaps think ...
... morning he had met Celestina , and gone through Willoughby's let- ter : but though his mind sometimes strongly resisted the idea of that relationship of which it spoke , he had nothing to offer against it ; and could only sigh over the ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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