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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... took occasion to say- “ But what were you going to tell me about Mr. Cathcart ? You seem to have forgotten him ? " " Ah ! Madam ! ” replied she with a deep sigh , “ I thought after I began to talk of him , that I was doing wrong , and ...
... took care , by sending her the newest modes from London , to enable her to give the ton1 in that remote country , 2 she piqued herself less on that advantage than on being reckoned extremely accomplished . In consequence of this rage ...
... took place after this event . To divert her mind from this irremediable calamity , and from the contemplation of the many anxieties that oppressed her , she amused herself by composing her first Sonnets , which were never intended for ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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