Emmeline (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Charlotte Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551113597 ISBN 13: 9781551113593

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2003

Synopsis

“Emmeline is one of the most delightful, absorbing English novels of the eighteenth century. We are lucky to have Loraine Fletcher’s beautifully contextualized, well-anotated edition in print.” — Adela Pinch, University of Michigan|The plot of Charlotte Smith’s autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the usual thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a “fairy tale princess.” At the same time, the novel satirically reworks such literary conventions by focusing on the dangers of early engagement and marriage, and challenges a social and legal system in which woment are inherently illegitimate subjects. The Broadview edition includes primary source material relating to the novel’s reception; women, marriage and work; and landscape in eighteenth-century fiction. Mary Hays’s biographical writing on Smith is also included, as is selected correspondence.

About this title

About the Author

Loraine Fletcher is a Lecturer at Reading University, UK. She is the author of Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography (Macmillan Academic Press, 1998).

From the Back Cover

The plot of Charlotte Smith's autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the usual thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a "fairy tale princess." At the same time, the novel satirically reworks such literary conventions by focusing on the dangers of early engagement and marriage, and challenges a social and legal system in which woment are inherently illegitimate subjects.

The Broadview edition includes primary source material relating to the novel's reception; women, marriage and work; and landscape in eighteenth-century fiction. Mary Hays's biographical writing on Smith is also included, as is selected correspondence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551113597
• ISBN 13: 9781551113593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520