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 84
... never again to meet , I should only think of submitting in such a way as would least wound him , to a blow , which I am sure he will not voluntarily give me , but never of running the hazard of making unhappy some equally worthy man ...
... never imagined possible till I saw them together . I cannot understand it ; and the more I think about it , the more incomprehensible it becomes . Tell me , Cathcart , do you think he will now ever marry her ? " " My dear sir ...
... never till now has it left my bosom , and I conjure you , Bel- legarde , never to part with it , till you place it on that of my daughter . ' " My noble friend lingered a few days longer , not in great pain , however , and perfectly ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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