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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... told her that I was so with her , though if I did upon my soul ' twas only by implication . I dangled to be sure , and dined and danced with her ; but I meant nothing , and was obliged at last to tell her mother so , who very plainly ...
... told her how sincerely I wished her a pleasant voyage , poor worthy woman ! ' After being compelled to listen to a ... told by the footman who opened it , that I might wait in the passage , and he would see . In the passage I waited some ...
... told me that wine was absolutely necessary to be given him in large quantities . Where was I to get it ? —For the first time , I had recourse to a pawnbroker , and my dear , dear Frank was my agent : for now , attached entirely to us ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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