Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism (The Enlilghtenment World)

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 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 1. Advancing poetry -- 2. Writing only to live : novels -- 3. Private theatricals and posthumous lives.