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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... suffered out of the sight of his father . He was then released by death from the officious affection which had long been very troublesome to him ; and with every thing on his side but a good constitution , he set out on a wild career of ...
... suffered some raillery for having so long deserted them . Every day now passed nearly alike , diversified only now and then by the company of a stranger from some of the other islands , and sometimes a party in the boat . Elphinstone ...
... suffered each of her friends to take an arm , and lead her home in silence ; where Montague Thorold advised her and Celestina to take immediately a few hours rest , as the tide would serve very early in the morning for their embarkation ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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