Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey & Horror Classics Behind It
Gothic Tales of Terror, Haunted Castles, Persecuted Heroines, and Satirical ParodyBy Ann Ward Radcliffe, Eliza Parsons, Ludwig Flammenberg, Matthew Lewis, Eleanor Sleath, Jane Austen
Length91h 8m
About this audiobook
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.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length91 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Varney the Vampire (Vol.1-3) (Annotated)
26CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
2Northanger Abbey
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
3Footnote
28CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
4CHAPTER ONE
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
5CHAPTER TWO
30CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
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6CHAPTER THREE
31CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
7CHAPTER FOUR
32CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
8CHAPTER FIVE
33CHAPTER THIRTY
9CHAPTER SIX
34CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
10CHAPTER SEVEN
35The Mysteries of Udolpho
11CHAPTER EIGHT
36VOLUME 1
12CHAPTER NINE
37CHAPTER III
13CHAPTER TEN
38CHAPTER VI
14CHAPTER ELEVEN
39CHAPTER VIII
15CHAPTER TWELVE
40CHAPTER XI
16CHAPTER THIRTEEN
41CHAPTER XIII
17CHAPTER FOURTEEN
42CHAPTER II
18CHAPTER FIFTEEN
43CHAPTER IV
19CHAPTER SIXTEEN
44CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
45CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
46CHAPTER VIII
22CHAPTER NINETEEN
47CHAPTER X
23CHAPTER TWENTY
48VOLUME 3
24CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
49CHAPTER IV
25CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
50CHAPTER VII
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