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 87
... wish so fervent as for your hap- piness . I cannot write to you on pecuniary affairs . Cathcart has , in regard to every thing of that sort , my full directions . Whenever he and Jessy become house - keepers for themselves , you will be ...
... wish to see her married . She was very sensible that her own life was not a good one ; for early calamity had shaken her constitution and brought on in the early autumn of her days the infirmities of old age ; and she knew , that after ...
... wish of becoming the husband of Miss Fitz - Hayman : and he was conscious that every part of his behaviour that had raised con- trary expectations , was owing rather to his despair of obtaining one woman than to his wish of being united ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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