Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey & Horror Classics Behind It

di Jane Austen (Autore)

Ludwig Flammenberg (Autore)

Lewis Matthew (Autore)

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e-artnow, 2024

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey & Horror Classics Behind It places Austen's comic Gothic novel in the imaginative terrain that it both relishes and interrogates. Bringing together fiction associated with the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century vogue for terror, the volume ranges from parody, social satire, and domestic comedy to ruined castles, persecuted heroines, spectral suggestion, and melodramatic suspense. Northanger Abbey gains particular resonance beside the darkly extravagant narratives that inform Catherine Morland's reading, while the surrounding texts reveal the formal ingenuity and emotional force of Gothic fiction. The collection gathers Ann Ward Radcliffe, Eliza Parsons, Ludwig Flammenberg, Matthew Lewis, Eleanor Sleath, and Jane Austen: writers whose works helped define, extend, or contest the conventions of Romantic-era popular literature. Their varied approaches register the period's concerns with sensibility, gendered reading, religious anxiety, class mobility, domestic vulnerability, and the uncertain boundary between rational explanation and supernatural terror. Read together, these voices illuminate the Gothic not as a marginal fashion, but as a major cultural language through which authors explored modernity and imagination. Ideal for students, Austen readers, and enthusiasts of Gothic literature, this volume offers an unusually rich comparative encounter. It invites readers to trace allusion, parody, influence, and resistance across contrasting styles, while appreciating each work's distinctive pleasures. The anthology's dialogue between terror and comedy makes it both an accessible introduction and a rewarding scholarly resource.

• Autore: Jane Austen, Ludwig Flammenberg, Lewis Matthew
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4066339593060