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Celestina

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. This Broadview edition includes an introduction and primary source material relating to the novel's reception, political contexts and the author's life.
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Broadview Press, Toronto, ©2004
Fiction
603 pages ; 22 cm
9781551114583, 1551114585
1006057823
AcknowledgementsIntroductionCharlotte Smith: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextCelestinaAppendix A: The Reception and Influence of CelestinaMary Wollstonecraft, The Analytical Review (August 1791)Anon., The European Magazine and London Review (October 1791)Anon., The Critical Review (November 1791)From Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)From Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)Appendix B: The Political ContextReverend Richard Price, “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country” (November 1789)From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (November 1790)From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (December 1790)From Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (February 1791)Joseph Antoine Cerruti, Feuille Villageoise (January 1791)Appendix C: Charlotte Smith’s LifeCharlotte Smith to Dr Joseph Warton, 31 August 1791Charlotte Smith to Mrs Thomas Lowes, 27 November 1791Catherine (Turner) Dorset, “Charlotte Smith” from Walter Scott’s Lives of the Novelists (1821)Select Bibliography