Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism

Jacqueline Labbe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138663657
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317314400
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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.

NOTES

Labbe, ‘Introduction'

1. 1. C. Smith, ‘To My Lyre’, in The Works of Charlotte Smith, gen. ed. S. Curran, 14 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005–7), vol. 14, ed. J. Labbe, p. 215 (ll. 37–48).
2. 2. C. Smith, The Old Manor House (1793), ed. J. Labbe (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2002).
3. 3. C. Smith, The Old Manor House (1793), ed. A. Ehrenpreis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969); C. Smith, Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (1788), ed. A. Ehrenpreis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
4. 4. A. Ehrenpreis, Introduction to Smith, Emmeline, ed. Ehrenpreis, p. xv.
5. 5. C. Smith, The Old Manor House (1793), ed. J. Todd (London: Pandora, 1987).
6. 6. J. Todd, Introduction to Smith, The Old Manor House, ed. Todd, p. ix.
7. 7. C. Smith, Desmond (1792), ed. J. Todd and A. Blank (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2001).
8. 8. J. Todd and A. Blank, Introduction to Smith, Desmond, ed. Todd and Blank, pp. 30, 29, 17.
9. 9. J. Labbe, Introduction to Smith, The Old Manor House, ed. Labbe, p. 28.
10. 10. Ibid.
11. 11. J. Willson, Introduction to C. Smith, Selected Poems, ed. J. Willson (Manchester: Carcanet, 2003), pp. xiv, xv.
12. 12. S. Curran, Introduction to The Poems of Charlotte Smith, ed. S. Curran (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. xxv.

1 Andrews, ‘“Herself [...] Fills The Foreground”’

1. 1. J. Labbe, ‘The Exiled Self ’: Images of War in Charlotte Smith’s The Emigrants’, in P. Shaw (ed.) Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict 1793–1822 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 37–56; p. 37.
2. 2. S. C. Behrendt, ‘Telling Secrets: The Sonnets of Anna Maria Smallpiece and Mary F. Johnson’, European Romantic Review, 13:4 (2002), pp. 393–410; p. 393.
3. 3. J. Labbe, Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 6.
4. 4. C. Smith, Preface to Elegiac Sonnets, 1st and 2nd edns, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 10.
5. 5. Ibid.
6. 6. Ibid.
7. 7. R. Crawford, Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700–1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 16.
8. 8. Ibid., p. 16.
9. 9. C. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume I, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 20.
10. 10. Labbe, Charlotte Smith, p. 6.
11. 11. Monthly Review, 71 (1784), p. 368.
12. 12. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume I, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 25.
13. 13. C. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, 5th edn (London: T. Cadell, 1789).
14. 14. Smith, Preface to Elegiac Sonnets, 5th edn, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 12.
15. 15. Ibid.
16. 16. S. Hess, Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (New York and London: Routledge, 2005), p. 57.
17. 17. Ibid., p. 19.
18. 18. Ibid., p. 57.
19. 19. Charlotte Smith to Thomas Cadell Sr. [?Brighton, c. 16 December 1792], in The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, ed. J. P. Stanton (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003), p. 55.
20. 20. Ibid., p. 55 (note 6).
21. 21. F. Burney, Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793), ed. C. L. Johnson (Los Angeles, CA: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1990), pp. 16–17.
22. 22. A. Craciun, British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 147.
23. 23. Ibid., p. 13.
24. 24. Critical Review, 6 (1792), p. 104.
25. 25. Critical Review, 9 (1793), pp. 299–300.
26. 26. C. Smith, Preface to The Emigrants (1793), in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 121.
27. 27. Ibid.
28. 28. Critical Review, 9 (1793), p. 299.
29. 29. C. Smith, The Emigrants, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 125.
30. 30. Ibid.
31. 31. Ibid.
32. 32. Ibid., p. 126.
33. 33. Ibid., pp. 126–7.
34. 34. Ibid., p. 127.
35. 35. Ibid., pp. 127–8.
36. 36. Ibid., p. 128.
37. 37. Ibid., p. 126.
38. 38. Ibid., p. 126.
39. 39. Ibid., p. 132.
40. 40. Ibid.
41. 41. Ibid.
42. 42. Labbe, ‘Exiled Self ’, p. 43.
43. 43. Smith, The Emigrants, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, pp. 132–3.
44. 44. Labbe, ‘Exiled Self ’, p. 54.
45. 45. Smith, The Emigrants, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, pp. 146–7.
46. 46. C. Smith, Preface to Elegiac Sonnets, Volume II, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 66.
47. 47. J. Labbe, Introduction to Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. xii.
48. 48. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume II, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 68.
49. 49. Ibid. p. 90.
50. 50. Ibid., p. 91.
51. 51. Ibid., p. 93.
52. 52. Ibid., p. 90.
53. 53. Smith, The Emigrants, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 126.
54. 54. Ibid., p. 127.
55. 55. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume II, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 90.
56. 56. Smith, The Emigrants, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 126.
57. 57. Crawford, Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, p. 26.
58. 58. Ibid., p. 26.
59. 59. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume II, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 66.
60. 60. Smith, The Emigrants, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 132.
61. 61. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume II, in Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14, p. 91.
62. 62. Ibid., p. 93.
63. 63. Critical Review, 21 (1797), p. 151.
64. 64. W. Wordsworth, ‘Nuns Fret Not at their Convent’s Narrow Rooms’, quoted in Crawford, Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, p. 253.
65. 65. Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, Volume I, in Works of Ch...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• I. Advancing Poetry
• II. Writing Only to Live: Novels
• III. Private Theatricals and Posthumous Lives
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index