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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... reason and restraint , rejecting the rules and customs of an older generation . And in general , Austen's novel is understood to reassert reason and a traditional Christian self - control . Her choice of the name Willoughby alone for a ...
... reasons which perhaps I ought not to penetrate , it is no longer in your power to act by me as a brother and a friend , I ... reason to imagine it , and of late has sedulously avoided me , as if he supposed me weak and vain enough to ...
... reason of their abrupt separation . She had not , however , courage to ask him ; but having wiped away the tears which a moment before filled her eyes , she turned them upon him with a look so expressive of what passed in her heart ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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