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From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Northanger Abbey, edited by Marilyn Gaull, presents Jane Austin's classic work along with a critical introduction and contextual materials on and from the period.
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List 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 GilpinObservations 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.
Summary
From Longman's 'Cultural Editions' series, 'Northanger Abbey', presents key texts that illuminate the lively intersections of literature, tradition, and culture. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of a literary work, supplemented by annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, a guide for further inquiry and more.
