This book explores what it means to read the six major works of Jane Austen, inlight of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith. It proposes that Smithhad a deep and lasting impact on Austen, but this is not an influence study. Instead,it argues for the possibility that two authors who never met could between themwrite something into being, both responding to and creating a novelistic zeitgeist.This, the book argues, can be called co-writin...

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 ...

Quelle image plus omniprésente que celle du clerc dans la littérature populaire de la fin du Moyen Âge ? De toutes les classes sociales évoquées, le clergé vient en tête lorsque l’on s’intéresse à des textes comme les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, les Évangiles des Quenouilles, la Farce de Maistre Pierre Pathelin et Maistre Mimin estudiant. Ce n’est pas toujours avec respect que ces personnages sont traités, bien loin de là. La littérature médiévale n’a rien à apprendre sur la catharsis, et, f...

Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current scholarship.

England 1776. A young man, who is to inherit the local Manor House from a childless old lady risks losing everything when he falls in love with one of the servants.