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Charlotte Smith in British romanticism
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Charlotte Smith in British romanticism

Author: Jacqueline M Labbe
Publisher: London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2008.
Series: Enlightenment world, no. 5.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Charlotte Smith is an originating voice of 'the Romantic' whose centrality is at last being recognized. Her early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility as a trope beyond its two-dimensional reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume seeks to draw together the best of current Smith  Read more...
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Named Person: Charlotte Smith; Charlotte Smith; Charlotte Turner Smith
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jacqueline M Labbe
ISBN: 9781851969456 1851969454
OCLC Number: 195736742
Description: ix, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 'Herself ... Fills the foreground': Negotiating autobiography in the Elegiac Sonnets and the Emigrants / Kerri Andrews --
From Nosegay to specimen cabinet: Charlotte Smith and the labour of collecting / Dahlia Porter --
The figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head / Kari Lokke --
The subject of Beachy Head / Christoph Bode --
'The slight skirmishing of a novel writer': Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence / Barbara Tarling --
Charlotte Smith, the Godwin Circle, and the proliferation of speakers in the Young Philosopher / A.A. Markley --
The Alien Act and negative cosmopolitanism in the Letters of a solitary wanderer / Amy Garnai --
Narrating seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen / Jacqueline Labbe --
Charlotte Smith's The Banished man in French translation: or the politics of novel writing during the French Revolution / Katherine Astbury --
'This village wonder': Charlotte Smith's What is she? and the ideological comedy of curiosity / Diego Saglia --
Recovering Charlotte Smith's letters: A history, with lessons / Judith Phillips Stanton --
Intertextualities / Stuart Curran --
Charlotte Smith, women poets, and the culture of celebrity / Stephen C. Behrendt --
Tell my name to distant ages': the literary fate of Charlotte Smith / Louise Duckling.
Series Title: Enlightenment world, no. 5.
Responsibility: edited by Jacqueline Labbe.
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