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Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism
Editor: Jacqueline Labbe
The Enlightenment World
978 1 85196 945 6: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 566 3
Famously commemorated by William Wordsworth as a poet ‘to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered’, Charlotte Smith is an originating voice of ‘the Romantic’ whose centrality is at last being recognized, 170 years after Wordsworth’s double-edged encomium. 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. As an innovator, she reflects the Romantic concern with energizing the familiar, while her interests in science and philosophy, apparent in her paratexts, reveal her ambitions to understand her place in the quotidian.
This volume seeks to draw together the best of current Smith scholarship. Essays by leading Smith scholars are organised according to genre, and contextualised by a substantial introduction.
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Readership
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romanticism, Women’s Writing
Contents
Advancing Poetry
Kerri Andrews, '"Herself […] Fills The Foreground": Negotiating Autobiography in The Elegiac Sonnets and The Emigrants’
Dahlia Porter, ‘From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and The Labour Of Collecting’
Kari Lokke, ‘The Figure of the Hermit In Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head’
Christoph Bode, ‘The Subject Of Beachy Head’
Writing Only To Live: Novels
Barbara Tarling, '"The Slight Skirmishing Of A Novel Writer": Charlotte Smith and the American War Of Independence’
A A Markley, ‘Charlotte Smith, The Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of Speakers in The Young Philosopher’
Amy Garnai, ‘The Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in Letters Of A Solitary Wanderer’
Jacqueline M Labbe, ‘Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen’
Katherine Astbury, ‘Charlotte Smith’s The Banished Man in French Translation; or, The Politics of Novel-Writing during the French Revolution’
Private Theatricals And Posthumous Lives
Diego Saglia, ‘'"This Village Wonder": Charlotte Smith’s What Is She? and the Ideological Comedy of Curiosity’
Judith Phillips Stanton, ‘Recovering Charlotte Smith’s Letters: A History, With Lessons’
Stuart Curran, ‘Intertextualities’
Stephen C. Behrendt, ‘Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, and the Culture of Celebrity’
Louise Duckling, '"Tell My Name To Distant Ages": The Literary Fate of Charlotte Smith’
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