Loraine Fletcher: Charlotte Smith

Cover: 9780333949467 | Charlotte Smith | A Critical Biography | Loraine Fletcher | Buch | xi

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Beschreibung

'Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.

Über den Autor

LORAINE FLETCHER is a Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Reading. She was born in Somerset, grew up on Friday Hill Council Estate in Chingford and went to Woodford County High School and Reading University. She has taught all her adult life in schools, at evening classes as a private tutor, at Stanford University's base in England and currently in the English Department at Reading University. She has lived in America for over eleven years at various times and places from the sixties to the eighties. She took her MA at Arizona State University and her PhD at Birkbeck. She is the widow of the poet and 1890s scholar Ian Fletcher, has two daughters and lives in Reading.

Zusammenfassung

Includes extracts from previously unpublished letters and provides précis of her novels

Unexpected topic linking from Smith to the Slave Trade (just now becoming recognised as the basis of British prosperity), to Stourhead and Beachy Head, to Burke's use of the old castle as a symbol of the constitution, to many well-known writers/artists of the 1790s, to Erasmus Darwin's ideas on species competition and evolution

Scholarly but a good read

New edition of Smith's works forthcoming

Excellent reviews extolling Fletcher's rediscovery of Smith

Growing importance of Charlotte Smith as literary figure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Exile Writing to Live Girondism An Interest in Green Leaves The Goddess of Botany Jane Austen Beachy Head Charlotte Smith's Works in Chronological Order Editions of Charlotte Smith's Works Cited Primary Sources Secondary Sources

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xi 401 S.
ISBN-13:	9780333949467
ISBN-10:	0333949463
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fletcher, Loraine
Auflage:	1998 edition
Hersteller:	Palgrave MacMillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	214 x 156 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Loraine Fletcher
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.06.1998
Gewicht:	0,64 kg