Contents
- The Text of Northanger Abbey
- Backgrounds
- BIOGRAPHY
- Virginia Woolf, [The Girl of Fifteen is Laughing]
- Claire Tomalin, [Writing and Family in the Late 1790s]
- Q.D. Leavis, [Not an Inspired Amateur]
- Henry Thomas Austen, Biographical Notice of the Author
- EARLY WRITINGS
- Jane Austen, The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st (1791)
- Jane Austen, From Catharine, or the Bower (1792)
- LETTERS ON NORTHANGER ABBEY AND THE AUTHOR’S ADVERTISEMENT
- To Cassandra Austen, [The Austens as Novel Readers] (1798)
- To Crosby & Co., [The Failure to Publish Susan] (1809)
- From Richard Crosby, [The Offer to Return Susan] (1809)
- Advertisement, by the Authoress, to Northanger Abbey (1816)
- To Fanny Knight, [The Shelving of Catharine] (1817)
- Contexts
- William Wordsworth, From Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800)
- Samuel Coleridge, From Biographica Literaria (1817)
- Dr. John Gregory, From A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters (1774)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Frances Burney, From Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778)
- Ann Radcliffe, From The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
- Criticism
- EARLY VIEWS
- British Critic, [The Customs and Manners of Common-Place People] (1818)
- Richard Whatley, [Hardly Exceeded by Shakespeare] (1812)
- Julia Kavanagh, [Small Vanities and Small Falsehoods] (1862)
- Margaret Oliphant, [Exquisite Derision] (1882)
- Rebecca West, [The Feminism of Jane Austen] (1932)
- MODERN VIEWS
- A.Walton Litz, [Regulated Sympathy in Northanger Abbey] (1965)
- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen’s Juvenilia (1979)
- Robert Hopkins, General Tilney and Affairs of State: The Political Gothic of Northanger Abbey (1980)
- Patricia Meyer Spacks, Muted Discord: Generational Conflict in Jane Austen (1981)
- Claudia L. Johnson, The Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey: The Authority of Men and Books (1988)
- Lee Erickson, The Economy of Novel Reading: Jane Austen and the Circulating Library (1990)
- Narelle Shaw, Free Indirect Speech and Jane Austen’s 1816 Revision of Northanger Abbey (1990)
- Joseph Litvak, The Most Charming Young Man in the World (1997)
- Jane Austen: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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