19. Jane Austen

(1775-1817)

and the Northanger Novelists

Carl Grosse (1768-1847), Lawrence Flammenberg [Karl Friedrich Kahlert],

Francis Lathom (1777-1832), Eliza Parsons (1748-1811),

Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845), Eleanor Sleath

 

 

Internet Resources: Illustrations from the Chapbooks and Shilling Shockers in the Sadleir-Black Gothic Collection, the University of Virginia (go to the Appendix, Commentaries on the Engravings)

The Jane Austen Society of North America

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ANDERSON, Walter E. “From Northanger Abbey to Woodston: Catherine’s Education to Common Life.” [GGII: 0615].

AUERBACH, Nina. “Jane Austen and Romantic Imprisonment.” In Jane Austen in a Social Context. [GGI: 09-74].

BRANDON, Eugenie Josephine. “Jane Austen’s Attitude toward the Gothic Novel.” Master’s Thesis, University of Arizona, 1935. Austen’s attitude toward the Gothic was not entirely negative as evidenced by the mildness of her satire and her admiration for Ann Radcliffe’s novels.

BROOKS, Marilyn and Nicola WATSON. “Northanger Abbey: Contexts” (pp. 62-86). In The Nineteenth Century Novel: Contexts, eds. Delia da Sousa Correa, Dennis Walter and Stephen Regan. London: Routledge for Open University, 2000.

BURGESS, Miranda. “Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance” (pp. 392-412). In Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion, eds. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

BUTLER, Marilyn. “The Woman at the Window: Ann Radcliffe in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen.” [GGI: 0975].

CHARD, Leslie F. II. “Jane Austen and the Obituaries: The Names of Northanger Abbey.” [GGII: 0616].

CLARKE, Stephen. “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill, and Aspects of the Gothic Revival.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 93-105.

DAVIE, John. “Introduction.” To Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. [GGI: 0977].

DEFENSOR, Ella Benaoro. “A Study in Jane Aus-ten’s reaction to the Gothic novel and the Novel of Sensibility.” Master’s Thesis, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1955.

DELOGU, Christopher Jon. “Northanger Abbey et le roman gothique entre parodie et apologie” (pp. 162-68). In Le Roman noir anglais dit gothique, ed. Max Duperray. Paris: Ellipses, 2000. [Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Romance between Parody and Apology].

DERRY, Stephen. “Harriet Smith’s Reading.” [GGII: 0617].

DERRY, Stephen.  “The Gothic, and Coat Symbolism in North- anger Abbey.” Persuasions 18 (1996): 49-53.

DUSSINGER, John. “Parents Against Children: General Tilney as Gothic Monster.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 165-74.

EHRENPREIS, Anne H. “Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith.” [GGI: 0978].

EHRENPREIS, Anne H.. “Introduction” (pp. 7-24). To Northanger Abbey. Baltimore: Penguin, 1972.

EMDEN, Cecil S. “The Composition of Northanger Abbey.” [GGI: 0979].

GILES, Paul. “The Gothic Dialogue in Pride and Pre-judice.” [GGII: 0618].

GLOCK, Waldo S. “Catherine Morland’s Gothic Delusions.” [GGI: 0980].

GROGAN, Claire. "Introduction" (pp. 5-42). To Northanger Abbey. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996.

HERMANSSON, Casie. “Neither Northanger Abbey: The Reader Presupposes.” Papers on Language and Literature 36:4 (2000): 337-56.

HOEVELER, Diane Long. “Vindicating Northanger Abbey: Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Gothic Feminism” (pp. 117-35). In Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, ed. Devoney Looser. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

HOPKINS, Robert. “General Tilney and the Affairs of State: The Political Gothic of Northanger Abbey” (pp. 213-24. In Jane Austen, Critical Assessments: Volume III, Juvenilia; Lady Susan; the Watsons; Letters; Northanger Abbey; Sense and sensibility; Pride and Prejudice. Mountfield, East Sussex: Helm Information, 1998.

HUDSON, J. “Gothic, Romance and Satire in Northanger Abbey. “ English Review 12 (2001): 20-23.

JERINIC, Maria. “In Defense of the Gothic: Rereading Northanger Abbey” (pp. 137-49).  In Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, ed. Devoney Looser. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.

LAMONT, Claire. “Jane Austen’s Gothic Architecture” (pp. 107-15). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

LAU, Beth. “Madeline at Northanger Abbey: Keats’s Anti-Romances and Gothic Satire.” [GGII: 0619].

LEVINE, George R. “Translating the Monstrous: Northanger Abbey.” [GGI: 0982].

LEVINE, George R.  Northanger Abbey: From Parody to Novel and Translated Monster.” [GGI: 0983].

LOVERIDGE, Mark. “Northanger Abbey: Or, Nature and Probability.” [GGII: 0620].

MC KILLOP, Alan D. “Jane Austen’s Gothic Ti-tles.” [GGI: 0984].

MEIHUIZEN, Dorothea, ed. Northanger Abbey. With an appendix on the Gothic novel containing extracts from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1978; London: Edward Arnold, 1980.

MENHENNET, Alan. “From Bierbach to Bath: Wieland, Jane Austen, and Ann Radcliffe.” [GGII: 0621].

MIDDLETON, Linda C. "Anxious Spectators and Voluntary Spies: The Novel Hauntings of Northanger Abbey." Genre 27 (1994): 105-19.

MORRISON, Paul. “Enclosed in Openness: North-anger Abbey and the Domestic Carceral.” [GGII: 0622].

MUDRICK, Marvin. “The Literary Pretext Continued; Irony Versus Gothicism; Northanger Abbey.” In Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery. [GGII: 0623].

NEILL, Edward. “The Secret of Northanger Abbey.” Essays in Criticism 47 (1997): 13-32.

NICHOLSON, Darrell Hatfield. “A Study of the Influence of the Gothic Romance on Northanger Abbey.” Master’s. Thesis, University of Louisville, 1966.

NEILL, Natalie. "'The Trash with which the Press now Groans': Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Bestsellers of the 1790s." Eighteenth-Century Novel 4 (2004): 163-92.

NOEL-BENTLEY, E.R. “Jane Austen and Regina Maria Roche.” [GGI: 0985].

PAYNE, Susan. The Strange within the Real: The Function of Fantasy in Austen, Brontë, and Eliot. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1992.

PEREZ-GALLEGO, Candido. “Dos dimensiones estilisticas de Jane Austen.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 22-23 (1991): 9-21. [Two stylistic dimensions of Jane Austen].

PITTOCK, Joan. “The Novelist in Search of a Fiction: Northanger Abbey.” [GGII: 0624].

RAY, Joan Klingel. “Austen’s Northanger Abbey.” Explicator 61:2 (2003): 79.

ROBERTS, Marilyn. “Catherine Morland: Gothic Heroine After All?“ TOPIC: A Journal of the Liberal Arts 48 (1997): 22-30.

SADLEIR, Michael. The Northanger Novels: A Footnote to Jane Austen. [GGI: 0986].

SADLEIR, Michael.  “‘All Horrid?’: Jane Austen and the Gothic Ro-mance.” [GGI: 0987].

SEARS, Albert C. “Male Novel Reading of the 17-90s, Gothic Literature and Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 21 (1999): 106-22.

STÉPHANE, Nelly. “Une Parodie de roman noir: Northanger Abbey.” [GGII: 0625].

SUMMERS, Montague. “‘Northanger Abbey’: ‘Hor-rid Romances.’” [GGII: 0626].

SUMMERS, Montague.  “‘Northanger Abbey’: ‘Horrid Romances.’” [GGII: 0627].

SUMMERS, Montague.  “‘Northanger Abbey.’” [GGII: 0628].

TANDRUP, Birthe. “Free Indirect Style and the Critique of the Gothic in Northanger Abbey.” In The Romantic Heritage: A Collection of Critical Essays. [GGII: 0629].

THOMSON, Douglass H. and Frederick S. FRANK. “Jane Austen and the Northanger Novelists” (pp. 33-47). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

TY, Eleanor. “Catherine’s Real and Imagined Fears: What Happens to Female Bodies in Gothic Castles.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 248-60.

WALDRON, Mary. “NORTHANGER NOVELS” (p. 279). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

WALLACE, Tara Ghoshal. “Northanger Abbey and the Limits of Parody.” [GGII: 0630].

WOLPERS, Theodore. “Schrecken und vernunft: Die Romanlesende Heldin in Jane Austens Northanger Abbey.” In Gelebte literatur: Studien zu erscheinungsformen und geschichte eines literarischen motivs. [GGII: 0631].

ZIMMERMAN, Everett. “The Function of Parody in Northanger Abbey.” [GGI: 989].

Carl Grosse (1768-1847)

LE TELLIER, Robert Ignatius. Kindred Spirits: Interrelations and Affinities Between the Romantic Novels of England and Germany (1790-1820) with Special Reference to the Work of Carl Grosse (1768-1847) Forgotten Gothic Novelist and Theorist of the Sublime. [GGII: 0632].

SUMMERS, Montague. "Introduction." To Horrid Mysteries. [GGI: 0992].

VARMA, Devendra P. "Introduction." To Horrid Mysteries. [GGI: 0993].

Lawrence Flammenberg (dates unknon)

CASS, Jeffrey D. "Introduction" To The Necromancer; or, The Tale of lthe Black Forest. Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006.

SUMMERS, Montague. "Introduction." To The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest. [GGI: 1014].

 VARMA, Devendra P. "Introduction." To The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest. [GGI: 1015].

 Francis Lathom (1777-1832)

CRUISE, James. "Introduction." To The Impenetrable Secret; Find It Out! Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006.

JENKINS, James D. “Introduction” (pp. ix-xiii). To The Castle of Ollada by Francis Lathom. Seattle: Valancourt Books, 2005.

JENKINS, James D. “Introduction” to Italian Mysteries by Francis Lathom. Chicago: Valancourt Press, 2005

JENKINS, James D. "Introduction" To The Mysterious Freebooter; or, The Days of Queen Bess. Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006.

MC CONNOCHIE, Arthur. “Francis Lathom, Forgotten Goth.” [GGI: 0994].

PUNTER, David & Alan BISSETT. “Francis Lathom in the Eighteenth Century.” Gothic Studies 5:1 (2003): 55-70.

VARMA, Devendra P. “Introduction.” To The Midnight Bell. [GGI: 0996].

 Eliza Parsons (1748-1811)

HOEVELER, Diane Long. "Introduction." To The Castle of Wolfenbach. Chicago: Valancourt Press, 2006.

ROBERTS, Bette B. “Marital Fears and Polygamous Fantasies in Eliza Parsons’ Mysterious Warning.” [GGI: 0997].

SÉJOURNÉ, Philippe. “Feminine Sentimental Fiction Renovated: Mrs. Eliza Parsons’s The Valley of St. Gothard.” Caliban 33 (1996): 43-50.

VARMA, Devendra P. "Introduction." To The Castle of Wolfenbach. [GGI: 0999].

SUMMERS, Montague.  "Introduction." To The Mysterious Warning: A German Tale. [GGI: 1000].

Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845)

ATKINSON, F.G. "Introduction." To Nocturnal Vis-it. [GGI: 1001].

MANDAL, Anthony. “Revising the Radcliffean Model: Regina Maria Roche’s Clermont and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.” Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 3: 3 September 1999: <http://www.cf.ac.uk/ encap/ corvey/articles/cc03_n03.html>.

SCHROEDER, Natalie E. “Regina Maria Roche: Popular Novelist, 1789-1834.” [GGI: 1005].

SCHROEDER, Natalie E.  “Regina Maria Roche, Popular Novelist, 1789-1834: The Rochean Canon.” [GGI: 1006].

SCHROEDER, Natalie. "Introduction" to Clermont by Regina Maria Roche. Chicago: Valancourt Press, 2005.

SUMMERS, Montague.  “The Anti-Feminist Reception of Regina Maria Roche.” [GGII: 0633].

SUMMERS, Montague.  “Regina Maria Roche and the Early Nineteenth Century Irish Novel.” [GGII: 0634].

VARMA, Devendra P. "Introduction." To Clermont. [GGI: 1008].

VARMA, Devendra P.  "Introduction." To The Children of the Abbey. [GGI: 1008A].

Eleanor Sleath (dates unknown)

VARMA, Devendra P. "Introduction." To The Orphan of the Rhine. [GGI: 1010].

 VARMA, Devendra P .  "Introduction." To The Nocturnal Minstel; or, The Spirit of the Wood. [GGI: 1011].