Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
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'Herself ... Fills the foreground': Negotiating autobiography in the Elegiac Sonnets and the Emigrants / Kerri Andrews -- From Nosegay to specimen cabinet: Charlotte Smith and the labour of collecting / Dahlia Porter -- The figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head / Kari Lokke -- The subject of Beachy Head / Christoph Bode -- 'The slight skirmishing of a novel writer': Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence / Barbara Tarling -- Charlotte Smith, the Godwin Circle, and the proliferation of speakers in the Young Philosopher / A.A. Markley -- The Alien Act and negative cosmopolitanism in the Letters of a solitary wanderer / Amy Garnai -- Narrating seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen / Jacqueline Labbe -- Charlotte Smith's The Banished man in French translation: or the politics of novel writing during the French Revolution / Katherine Astbury -- 'This village wonder': Charlotte Smith's What is she? and the ideological comedy of curiosity / Diego Saglia -- Recovering Charlotte Smith's letters: A history, with lessons / Judith Phillips Stanton -- Intertextualities / Stuart Curran -- Charlotte Smith, women poets, and the culture of celebrity / Stephen C. Behrendt -- Tell my name to distant ages': the literary fate of Charlotte Smith / Louise Duckling.
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"Charlotte Smith is an originating voice of 'the Romantic' whose centrality is at last being recognized. Her early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility as a trope beyond its two-dimensional reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume seeks to draw together the best of current Smith scholarship. Essays by leading Smith scholars are organized according to genre, and contextualized by a substantial introduction."--Jacket.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Smith, Charlotte,1749-1806-- Criticism and interpretation.