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Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Edition 1/e
Jane Austen
Marilyn Gaull
Published September 2004 by Longman
Copyright 2005, 320 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-321-20208-2
List Price:
$8.00
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Summary

Presents Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen along with a critical introduction and contextual materials. KEY TOPICS: This edition places Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey in the major conversations of Romanticism, not just the gothic novel and female education. It places the novel in two contexts, 1798, when it was written, and 1818, when it was published, illustrating its relevance to both periods and the major writers, especially the poets. This edition connects Jane Austen with the major Western literary tradition, from ancient myth, the Arabian Nights, to Cervantes, Flaubert, and Virginia Woolf. MARKET: Those interested in Jane Austen and/or the novel Northanger Abbey.
Features

  • This Cultural Edition foregrounds Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey in the major conversations of Romanticism, not just the gothic novel and female education.
  • Places the novel in two contexts–1798, when it was written, and 1818, when it was published–illustrating its relevance to both periods and their major writers, especially the poets.
  • Contextual apparatus connects Jane Austen with the major Western literary tradition, from ancient myth and the Arabian Nights, to Cervantes, Flaubert, and Virginia Woolf.
  • Longman Cultural Editions are available for sale individually, at a discount when packaged with another Longman text, or free when packaged with The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2/e.


Table of Contents


List of Illustrations.

 

About Longman Cultural Editions.

 

About this Edition.

Jane Austen’s Life and Times.

Introduction.

Table of Dates.

Northanger Abbey.

 

Contexts.

 

The Romance Plot.

    Cupid and Psyche.

 

Gothic Romance.

 

    Horace Walpole   The Castle of Otranto.

 

    William Beckford    Vathek.

 

    Matthew Gregory Lewis   The Monk.

 

    Ann Radcliffe.

 

        Supernaturalism   (Biographia Literaria).

 

        Sensibility.

 

        Sublime   (Curiosity).

 

        The Mysteries   of Udolpho.

 

        The Italian—Schedoni.

 

Gothic Decline.

 

Gothic Parody. 

                     

    Beckford, Azemia.

 

    Eaton Stannard Barrett   The Heroine.

 

    T.L. Peacock    Nightmare Abbey.

     

Bath, England.

    “Faery lands forlorn.”

    Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.

 

From Gothic Romance to Historical Novel.

    Sir Walter Scott    Waverley.

 

The Picturesque, Enclosures, and Anti-Picturesque.

 

    The Picturesque.

 

        William Gilpin Observations on the River Wye.

 

        James Plumptre    The Lakers.

 

        Enclosures and the Anti-Picturesque.

                

        George Crabbe   The Village.

 

Reviews of Northanger Abbey.

                

    British Critic.

 

    Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.

 

Bibliography.

 

Suggestions for Further Reading.

 
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