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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 193 0 245 x 175 mm 1018 as 268 pages |
CHARLOTTE SMITH Letters of a Solitary Wanderer 1800 Letters of a Solitary Wanderer (the title comes from Dr Johnson) appeared first in three volumes, two more being added later from another publisher. These first three each contain an independent and contrasting romance, set in Gothic Yorkshire, Jamaica, and sixteenth-century France respectively. They are a development in kind from Smith’s earlier novels, sharing for instance, as the title indicates, the theme of displacement. In his introduction Jonathan Wordsworth shows how they relate to Lewis, Radcliffe and Scott; and also how, two years after the publication of Lyrical Ballads, there is a new concern for simplicity, naturalness and feeling. £55 $85 Gracious God! what will become of me! ...My father, I am assured by the faithful Amponah, the only servant in whom I have any confidence, is determined to proceed without further consulting me; and lawyers have been some days in the house drawing up the bill of sale - for what else can I call it? He has been used to purchase slaves, and feels no repugnance in selling his daughter to the most dreadful of all slavery. |
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