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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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 69
... tion as a satirist . The Marianne - Willoughby plot has always tended to engage more readers than the Elinor - Edward one , and some have seen its end as anti - climactic . To read Sense and Sensibility in relation to Celestina is to ...
... tion too much for her , she added hastily- " tell him thus much , Cathcart , in the letter you will of course write to him this afternoon ; and tell me that your next letter shall inform him , if it is still uneasy to him to receive a ...
... tion of humanity has evils equal to mine , though I have sometimes thought them insupportable . But in acquiring ... tion to it , and I wished to see them married long before I knew what favourable prospects might one day open to the ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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