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CHARLOTTE SMITH IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century Series Editor: Michael T. Davis Series Co-Editors: Jack Fruchtman, Jr Iain McCalman Paul Pickering Advisory Editor: Hideo Tanaka Titles in this Series Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment David Worrall Th e Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776–1832 Michael Scrivener Writing the Empire: Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism Carol Bolton Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (eds) Forthcoming Titles Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (eds) Th e Scottish People and the French Revolution Bob Harris Th e Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century Jonathan Lamb John Th elwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon Steve Poole Rhyming Reason: Th e Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists Michelle Faubert William Wickham, Master Spy: Th e Secret War against the French Revolution Michael Durey www.pickeringchatto.com/enlightenmentworld CHARLOTTE SMITH IN BRITISH ROMANTICISM edited by Jacqueline Labbe london PICKERING & CHATTO 2008 Published by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 2252 Ridge Road, Brookfi eld, Vermont 05036-9704, USA www.pickeringchatto.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd 2008 british library cataloguing in publication data Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism. – (Th e Enlightenment world) 1. Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749–1806 – Infl uence 2. Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749–1806 – Criticism and interpretation 3. Romanticism – Great Britain I. Labbe, Jacqueline M., 1965– 821.6 ISBN–13: 9781851969456 ∞ Th is publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standard for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge CONTENTS Contributors vii List of Figures ix Introduction – Jacqueline Labbe 1 I. Advancing Poetry 1 ‘Herself […] Fills Th e Foreground’: Negotiating Autobiography in the Elegiac Sonnets and Th e Emigrants – Kerri Andrews 13 2 From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and the Labour of Collecting – Dahlia Porter 29 3 Th e Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head – Kari Lokke 45 4 Th e Subject of Beachy Head – Christoph Bode 57 II. Writing Only to Live: Novels 5 ‘Th e Slight Skirmishing of a Novel Writer’: Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence – Barbara Tarling 71 6 Charlotte Smith, the Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of Speakers in Th e Young Philosopher – A. A. Markley 87 7 Th e Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in Th e Letters of a Solitary Wanderer – Amy Garnai 101 8 Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen – Jacque- line Labbe 113 9 Charlotte Smith’s Th e Banished Man in French Translation; or, Th e Politics of Novel-Writing during the French Revolution – Katherine Astbury 129 III. Private Th eatricals and Posthumous Lives 10 ‘Th is Village Wonder’: Charlotte Smith’s What Is She? and the Ideological Comedy of Curiosity – Diego Saglia 145 11 Recovering Charlotte Smith’s Letters: A History, With Lessons – Judith Phillips Stanton 159 vi Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism 12 Intertextualities – Stuart Curran 175 13 Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, and the Culture of Celebrity – Stephen C. Behrendt 189 14 ‘Tell My Name to Distant Ages’: Th e Literary Fate of Charlotte Smith – Louise Duckling 203 Notes 219 Works Cited 257 Index 273 CONTRIBUTORS Kerri Andrews is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. Katherine Astbury is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Stephen C. Behrendt is University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Christoph Bode is Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Munich. Stuart Curran is Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Penn- sylvania. Louise Duckling is an independent scholar. Amy Garnai teaches in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. Jacqueline Labbe is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Lit- erary Studies at the University of Warwick. Kari Lokke is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. A. A. Markley is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University, Brandy- wine. Dahlia Porter is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Diego Saglia is Associate Professor of English at Università di Parma, Italy Judith Phillips Stanton is an independent scholar. Barbara Tarling is a research student in the Department of English at the Open University. – vii – LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1: Charles Wilson Peale, Th e Long Room, Interior of the Front Room in Peale’s Museum (1822). 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