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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... young woman so humbly situated in life , as to travel in a stage coach , could help being charmed into liking by his wit , and awed into complaisance by his importance . On such a man the native dignity of Celestina failed totally of ...
... young friends . Elphinstone gave me , as nearly as he could , the words in which she answered his enquiry . " Why , my dear , dear Sir , you must think how shocked and amazed I was — for your poor good mother ! -to be sure I had a most ...
... young lady's dressing - room after Lady Castlenorth and the family were retired , however late the hour might be ; that her young lady was obliged to entrust her with these visits , that they might be more securely concealed from the ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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