Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism [Paperback]

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.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.Introduction , Jacqueline Labbe; Chapter 1 Herself & Fills The Foreground: Negotiating Autobiography in The Elegiac Sonnets and The Emigrants, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 2 From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and The Labour of Collecting, Dahlia Porter; Chapter 3 The Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smiths Beachy Head, Kari Lokke; Chapter 4 The Subject of Beachy Head, Christoph Bode; Chapter 5 The Slight Skirmishing of A Novel Writer: Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence, Barbara Tarling; Chapter 6 Charlotte Smith, The Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of Speakers in The Young Philosopher, A. A. Markley; Chapter 7 The Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in The Letters of A Solitary Wanderer, Amy Garnai; Chapter 8 Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen, Jacqueline Labbe; Chapter 9 Charlotte Smiths The Banished Man in French Translation; or the Politics Of Novel-Writing During the Revolution, Katherine Astbury; Chapter 10 This Village Wonder: Charlotte Smiths What is She? and the Ideological Comedy of Curiosity, Diego Saglia; Chapter 11 Recovering Charlotte Smiths Letters: A History, With Lessons, Judith Phillips Stanton; Chapter 12 Charlotte Smith: Intertextualities, Stuart Curran; Chapter 13 Charlotte Smith, Women Poets and The Culture of Celebrity, Stephen C. Behrendt; Chapter 14 Tell My Name to Distant Ages: The Literary Fate of Charlotte SlóJ