CONTENTS

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-viii

List of Figures

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-12

I - Advancing Poetry

1 - ‘Herself … Fills The Foreground’: Negotiating Autobiography in the Elegiac Sonnets and The Emigrants

pp 13-28

2 - From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and the Labour of Collecting

pp 29-44

3 - The Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head

pp 45-56

4 - The Subject of Beachy Head

pp 57-70

II - Writing Only to Live: Novels

5 - ‘The Slight Skirmishing of a Novel Writer’: Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence

pp 71-86

6 - Charlotte Smith, the Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of Speakers in The Young Philosopher

pp 87-100

7 - The Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer

pp 101-112

8 - Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen

pp 113-128

9 - Charlotte Smith's The Banished Man in French Translation; or, The Politics of Novel-Writing during the French Revolution

pp 129-144

III - Private Theatricals and Posthumous Lives

10 - ‘This Village Wonder’: Charlotte Smith's What Is She? and the Ideological Comedy of Curiosity

pp 145-158

11 - Recovering Charlotte Smith's Letters: A History, With Lessons

pp 159-174

12 - CHARLOTTE SMITH: Intertextualities

pp 175-188

13 - Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, and the Culture of Celebrity

pp 189-202

14 - ‘Tell My Name to Distant Ages’: The Literary Fate of Charlotte Smith

pp 203-218

Notes

pp 219-256

Works Cited

pp 257-272

Index

pp 273-275