Celestina - Brossura

Smith, Charlotte Turner; Fletcher, Loraine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1551114585 ISBN 13: 9781551114583

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2004

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Loraine Fletcher is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography (Macmillan, 1998) and the editor of Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline (Broadview Press, 2003).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1551114585
• ISBN 13: 9781551114583
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 580