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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... uneasy sensations , would , after she was accustomed to see them lose their effect on her mind , and that she would insensibly learn to behold them rather with agreeable than uneasy sentiments . He persuaded himself that such a ...
... uneasy , and Arabella evidently disliked her more than before ; while the Captain's rude examination of her counte- nance , from which she always shrunk , was now more painful to her than ever . She got away as soon as possible ; but ...
... uneasy dream indeed , but from a change of uneasiness . With her returning memory , all the purport of Willoughby's letter returned ; and Vava- sour's message added most painfully , the recollection that she must discuss it all with him ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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