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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... object , is attached to that object with more than common firmness : Vavasour's frantic fondness , and your real merit , will , in my opinion , be equally indifferent to her ; and I verily believe , that if Willoughby marries another ...
... object of his pride , became hourly more eager to see him , and more gratified by his company . It has been observed , that there are two reasons which equally operate in determining some people to marry - love and hatred ; and ...
... object around him . He observed at some dis- tance to the left a cross , in an elevated situation , but far below the extremest point of the cliffs ; and he recollected , that the day before Gaston had shewn him that cross , and had ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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