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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... soon reassured her new acquaintance , and soon after Jessy Woodburn , ( which was her name , ) followed Celestina to the chaise ; where having paid the coach in London , she now had directed her box to be placed . Mr. Jedwyn left the ...
Charlotte Smith Loraine Fletcher. be married to very soon ; as Miss Fitz - Hayman has insisted upon this before she gives her hand to her cousin , which is also to happen very soon in Italy . " " Miss Fitz - Hayman ! " said Celestina ...
... soon as her window was opened in the morning , which was almost as soon as it was light , she saw Montague Thorold standing under it . He kissed his hand to her when he perceived her , and looked so dejected that she could not see him ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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