Placing Charlotte Smith (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dolan, Elizabeth A.; Labbe, Jacqueline M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Featuring ten original essays, an introduction and an epilogue, this volume offers new insights into Smith's life and work by exploring two central issues: Smith's place as a foundational writer in her period, and her contribution to the creation of "place" as a concept of social and literary importance. The contributors analyze themes such as itineracy, the natural world, and patriotism; they also explore the position of Smith's work and authorial identity in terms of genre, aesthetics, and market dynamics. With its innovative approach to place as a material location, symbolic principle, and literary device, this volume advances our understanding of Smith's work. Placing Charlotte Smith reveals Smith as an author who not only energizes our interest in domestic concerns, but who also shapes a global discourse constituted by changing ideas about borders, travel, national, and international identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611462968
• Artikelnr.: 60701080

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Dolanis professor of English and Deputy Provost for Graduate Education at Lehigh University. Jacqueline M. Labbe is professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at De Montfort University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Elusive Charlotte Smith, by Stephen Behrendt
Chapter 2: "Far from my native fields removed": Gentility, Displacement,
and the Idea of Home in the Life and Poetry of Charlotte Smith, by Claire
Knowles
Chapter 3: Creating Home: The Roots of Charlotte Smith's Cosmopolitanism in
Emmeline, by Elizabeth A. Dolan
Chapter 4: Charlotte Smith: English Patriot, by Mary Anne Myers
Chapter 5: Comedic Travel and Political Satire: Smollett, Fielding, and
Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House, by Anne Chandler
Chapter 6: Locating the Common in Charlotte Smith's Ecocritical Writings
for Children, by Lisa Vargo
Chapter 7: "On the green margin": Science, Gender, and Originality in
Charlotte Smith's "Flora," by Melissa Bailes
Chapter 8: "With Faithful Pencil": Pastoral and Picturesque Composition in
Beachy Head, by Rachael Isom
Chapter 9: "A Tale of Two Smiths": In Pursuit of the Picturesque in
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, by Val Derbyshire
Chapter 10: Strange Shells of Poetry in the Landscape of C