num_pages: 397
description: The early novels of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) were precursors of the gothic fiction that came to dominate the Romantic period. This text, one of her later novels, is more political in nature and influenced the form and substance of works by Austen and Dickens.
language: English
title: The Young Philosopher
titlecomplete: The Young Philosopher (Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women)
ratings_count: 13
publisher: University Press of Kentucky