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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... situation gave him ; and appeared hurt that both his wife and daughter , though they behaved to her with all the attention and kindness possible , seemed not to understand , that on a mind like hers , in its present situation , the ...
... situation very dangerous ; as from her being a foreigner , an orphan , and probably the natural daughter of some person of high fashion in France , who has taken care to destroy all evidence of her real fami- ly , she is without ...
... situation , and as I related it , ( for he had no idea it was so bad , ) I saw those affections gradually shrink from the detail : his heart seemed to become harder as its tenderness became more necessary ; and he declared to me at last ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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