Northanger abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1998Description: xlii,388pISBN: 0192833685Contained works: Davie, John, edSubject(s): English Literature - Gothic Literature | Gothic Fiction | Manners and customs | Romance fiction, English | England | Books and reading | Horror tales--AppreciationDDC classification: 823.7 Summary: Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | Stack | 823.7 AUS/N (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 08844 |
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823.609 JAN Jane Austen: an anthology of recent criticism | 823.7 AUS/E Emma | 823.7 AUS/M Mansfield park | 823.7 AUS/N Northanger abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon | 823.7 AUS/S Sense and sensibility | 823.7 FRA Frankenstein: interrogating gender, culture and identity | 823.7 GOT/W Walter Scott and contemporary theory |
With an introduction by Terry Castle
Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque.
Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.
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