Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : A Longman Cultural Edition

List of Illustrations v About Longman Cultural Editions vii About This Edition ix Jane Austen's Life and Times xiv Introduction xxv Table of Dates xxxiii Northanger Abbey 1(198) Contexts 199(74) The Romance Plot 201(10) Cupid and Psyche 202(9) Gothic Romance, Sensibility, and the Sublime 211(19) From The Castle of Otranto (1764) 211(4) Horace Walpole From Vathek (1782) 215(3) William Beckford From The Monk (1796) 218(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis From Biographia Literaria 220(4) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sensibility 222(1) The Sublime 223(1) Ann Radcliffe 224(1) From The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 225(3) From The Italian (1797) 228(2) Gothic Decline and Gothic Parody 230(12) Gothic Decline 230(2) Gothic Parody 232(1) Thomas Love Peacock, from Nightmare Abbey (1818) 232(10) Bath: ``Faery lands forlorn'' 242(12) Tobias Smollett, from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) 248(6) From Gothic Romance to Historical Novel 254(5) Sir Walter Scott, from Waverley (1814) 254(5) The Picturesque, Enclosures, and the Anti-Pastoral 259(10) The Picturesque 259(3) From Observations on the River Wye (1782) 262(2) William Gilpin From The Lakers (1798) 264(2) James Plumptre Enclosures and the Anti-Pastoral 266(1) From The Village (1783) 266(3) George Crabbe Reviews of Northanger Abbey 269(4) From British Critic 269(2) From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 271(2) Further Reading 273