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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... present situation , agreed to stay another week in town ; and retired to her own room relieved by having thus declared her inten- tions and fixed the time when her present uneasy state of depen- dence would be at an end . But of this ...
... present abode uneasy to her , and knowing how much Willoughby desired her to continue there , rather discouraged than promoted any scheme for her removal ; flat- tering himself , that the time was not far distant when her presence would ...
... present embarrassment , which he hoped would be only temporary , besought him to advance him five hundred pounds for the present demands of tradesmen , till remittances came in , and till he could obtain assistance from his other ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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