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Book Parodies of the Gothic Novel

Download or read book Parodies of the Gothic Novel written by Leland Chandler May and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romantic Gothic

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  • Author : Angela Wright
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2015-11-16
  • ISBN : 074869675X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Romantic Gothic written by Angela Wright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Quatrième de couverture.

Book Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody

Download or read book Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody written by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel, ranging from well-known titles such as Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, to little known and researched titles such as Mary Charlton’s Rosella. Münderlein traces the development of socio-political debates conducted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on female roles, behaviour, and subversion from the subtly subversive Gothic novel to the Gothic parody. Combining two major areas of research, literary criticism and Gothic studies, the book provides both a new take on an ongoing debate in literary criticism as well as an in-depth study of a virtually neglected aspect of Gothic studies, the Gothic parody.

Book The Parodies of Gothic Conventions in  Northanger Abbey  by Jane Austen

Download or read book The Parodies of Gothic Conventions in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen written by Magdalena Przytarska and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Gdansk, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: The parody of Gothicism emerged as a reaction against its conventions, just as Gothic novel itself was directed against the rationality of Neoclassicism. At first, the Gothic novel gained great interest of the readers, the genre developed rapidly and many writers, like Clara Reeve, Mary Shelley or Charles Maturin contributed to this kind of fiction. However, the set of conventions established by Horace Walpole and then developed by Mrs. Radcliffe, became a point of reference for Jane Austen to create a novel titled Northanger Abbey, which became an outstanding parody of the conventions. Thus, Jane Austen reused many Gothic elements, retold the story in a parodying way in order to show the silliness and artificiality of the genre.

Book Why is Jane Austen s Northanger Abbey Often Referred to as a Parody of the Gothic Novel

Download or read book Why is Jane Austen s Northanger Abbey Often Referred to as a Parody of the Gothic Novel written by Melanie Strieder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Why is Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey often referred to as a parody of the Gothic novel?_ Jane Austen (1775-1817) is often regarded as the greatest English female novelist. Her novels are praised for their underlieing social comedy and thorough description of human relationships. She lived and worked during a time predominated by novels of sentiment, sensation and sensibility. However she stayed aloof from this literary style and especially her novel Northanger Abbey is often regarded to as a parody of the Gothic novel. Main authors of these so called 'Gothic' romances are for example Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole and M.G. Lewis. The Gothic novel has its origins in the Middle Ages and deals with mysterious, frightening, fantastic, supernatural, sexual and sublime things. The stories seem rather ridiculous to us today. The reader always finds similar characters and plots in those novels: "the tyrannical father, the importunate and unscrupulous suitor, the hero and heroine of sensibility and of mysterious but noble birth, the confidante[...], the chaperone."1 The heroine is always unbelievable beautiful but weak and virtuous. Then she is threatened by a veil man and saved by the hero in the end. In contrast to such a story Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is often considered as a "amusing and bitingly satirical pastiche of the 'Gothic' romances popular in her day."2 [...] _____ 1 Mudrick, Marvin: Irony versus Gothicism. In: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Edited by B.C. Southam. MacMillan Education Ltd. Hampshire, London. 1986 (Casebook Series); page 75 2 Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey. Penguin Popular Classics. London. 1994; blurb

Book Nightmare Abbey

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  • Author : Thomas Love Peacock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1818
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Nightmare Abbey written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satire on Byronism and pessimism in general. A gathering of eccentric characters in a country house, including Mr Glowry, his son Scythrop and Mr Toobad, leads to a series of absurd incidents.

Book Horrid Mysteries

Download or read book Horrid Mysteries written by Carl Grosse and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murder at Northanger Abbey

Download or read book Murder at Northanger Abbey written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly married to her beloved Henry, Catherine's eyes are now open to the grownup pleasures of wedded life. Yet she still hasn't quite given up her girlhood fascination with all things Gothic. When she first visited Northanger Abbey, she only imagined dreadful events had occurred there. This time the horror is all too real. There's been a murder, and Henry has fallen under suspicion. Catherine is determined to clear her husband's name, but at the same time, she's afraid for her own safety, since there's a very good chance the real murderer is still in the house.This delightful sequel reprises the mischievous spirit of Austen's original spoof on the Gothic novel, while giving Catherine a genuine murder mystery to unravel.

Book Henry Tilney s Diary

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  • Author : Amanda Grange
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-12-06
  • ISBN : 1101559020
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Henry Tilney s Diary written by Amanda Grange and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--a tale of gothic misunderstandings through Henry Tilney's eyes... At the age of four and twenty, Henry is content with his life as a clergyman, leaving his older brother Frederick to inherit Northanger Abbey. But General Tilney is determined to increase the family's means by having all three of his children marry wealthy partners. During a trip to Bath, Henry meets the delightful Miss Catherine Morland and believes he may have found the woman he's been looking for, although she has no great fortune. When the General takes an unusual liking to Catherine and invites her to visit the Abbey, Henry is thrilled. But just as in the Gothic novels Henry loves, not everything is as it seems...

Book Northanger Abbey as a Parody of Romance and the Gothic Novel

Download or read book Northanger Abbey as a Parody of Romance and the Gothic Novel written by Lise Chasteloux and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heroine  Or  Adventures of Cherubina

Download or read book The Heroine Or Adventures of Cherubina written by Eaton Stannard Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gothic Feminism

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  • Author : Diane Long Hoeveler
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 0271040971
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Gothic Feminism written by Diane Long Hoeveler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Bront&ës to show how these writers helped define femininity for women of the British middle class. Hoeveler argues that a female-created literary ideology, now known as &"victim feminism,&" arose as the Gothic novel helped create a new social role of professional victim for women adjusting to the new bourgeois order. These novels were thinly disguised efforts at propagandizing a new form of conduct for women, teaching that &"professional femininity&"&—a cultivated pose of wise passiveness and controlled emotions&—best prepared them for social survival. She examines how representations of both men and women in these novels moved from the purely psychosexual into social and political representations, and how these writers constructed a series of ideologies that would allow their female characters&—and readers&—fictitious mastery over an oppressive social and political system. Gothic Feminism takes a neo-feminist approach to these women's writings, treating them not as sacred texts but as thesis-driven works that attempted to instruct women in a series of strategic poses. It offers both a new understanding of the genre and a wholly new interpretation of feminism as a literary ideology.

Book The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Download or read book The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gothic Parodies

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  • Author : Jane Austen
  • Publisher : Ell Reading, LLC
  • Release : 2011-05
  • ISBN : 9780984409839
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book Gothic Parodies written by Jane Austen and published by Ell Reading, LLC. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 19th century writers Jane Austen, Thomas Love Peacock and Eaton Stannard Barrett poke fun at the elements of Gothic fiction in their brilliant, exceptionally humorous and entertaining novels.

Book Breaking Yawn

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  • Author : Stephfordy Mayo
  • Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
  • Release : 2011-10-31
  • ISBN : 1843177927
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Breaking Yawn written by Stephfordy Mayo and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guaranteed to make any Twilight fan laugh out loud,with its irreverent and clever take on the popular series.

Book Gothic Readings

Download or read book Gothic Readings written by Rictor Norton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.

Book The Old English Baron

Download or read book The Old English Baron written by Clara Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: