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082			_a823.7 _bAUS/N
100			_aAusten, Jane
245	1	0	_aNorthanger abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c1998
300			_axlii,388p.
490			_aOxford World's Classics
500			_aWith an introduction by Terry Castle
520			_aNorthanger 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.
650			_aEnglish Literature - Gothic Literature
650	0		_aGothic Fiction
650	0		_aManners and customs
650	0		_aRomance fiction, English
650	0		_aEngland
650	0		_aBooks and reading
650	0		_aHorror tales--Appreciation
700	0	2	_aDavie, John, ed.
942			_cBK
999			_c5042 _d5042