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 89
... passed the greater part of my life , I often leave it and ramble about , careless of every thing but change of place ; my old faithful servants and a few books being the sole companions of my travels . I have for these last four or five ...
... passed her with averted and haughty looks . Cavanaugh fixed his eyes on her with a look of bold enquiry , and Captain Thorold , as he passed his brother , said " Ho ! Montague , are you there ? I did not know you were in town my boy ...
... passed between Vavasour and Montague Thorold , after Celestina left them the preceding evening , a challenge had passed , and a meeting been appointed in Chelsea Fields2 at seven o'clock in the morning ; that Thorold , after quitting ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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