Jane Austen and the Enlightenment / by Knox-Shaw, Peter, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Auspices -- Pride and prejudice : a politics of the picturesque -- Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians -- Sense and sensibility and the philosophers -- Diffraction -- Mansfield Park : charting the religious revival -- Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty -- Persuasion : light on an old genre -- Sanditon and speculation.…”
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Jane Austen and the fiction of her time / by Waldron, Mary

Table of Contents: “…The juvenilia, the early unfinished novels and Northanger Abbey -- The non-heiresses: The Watsons and Pride and prejudice -- Sense and the single girl -- The frailties of Fanny -- Men of sense and silly wives: the confusions of Mr. …”
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Jane Austen and the fiction of her time / by Waldron, Mary

Table of Contents: “…The juvenilia, the early unfinished novels and Northanger Abbey -- The non-heiresses: The Watsons and Pride and prejudice -- Sense and the single girl -- The frailties of Fanny -- Men of sense and silly wives: the confusions of Mr. …”
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Jane Austen and the fiction of her time / by Waldron, Mary

Table of Contents: “…The juvenilia, the early unfinished novels and Northanger Abbey -- The non-heiresses: The Watsons and Pride and prejudice -- Sense and the single girl -- The frailties of Fanny -- Men of sense and silly wives: the confusions of Mr. …”
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Women's domestic activity in the Romantic-period novel, 1770-1820 : dangerous occupations/ by Morrissey, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Reading Novels in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey -- 5. Sensibility in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde -- 6. …”

Jane Austen and the state of the nation / by Craig, Sheryl, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jane Austen's legacy -- Juvenilia: a liberal conservative -- Sense and Sensibility: poor law reform -- Pride and Prejudice: the speenhamland system -- Northanger Abbey and the Watsons: the restriction act -- Mansfield Park: the condition of England -- Emma: William Pitt's utopia -- Persuasion: the post-Waterloo crash -- Sanditon: a political novel.…”

Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / by Miller, Christopher R., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…From Aristotle to emotion theory -- Being and feeling: the surprise attacks of Paradise Lost -- The accidental doctor: physics and metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe -- The purification of surprise in Pamela -- Fielding's statues of surprize -- Northanger Abbey and Gothic perception: Austen's aesthetics and ethics of surprise -- Wordsworthian shocks, gentle and otherwise -- Fine suddenness?…”

Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / by Miller, Christopher R., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…From Aristotle to emotion theory -- Being and feeling: the surprise attacks of Paradise Lost -- The accidental doctor: physics and metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe -- The purification of surprise in Pamela -- Fielding's statues of surprize -- Northanger Abbey and Gothic perception: Austen's aesthetics and ethics of surprise -- Wordsworthian shocks, gentle and otherwise -- Fine suddenness?…”
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A new scene of thought : studies in Romantic realism / by Lansdown, Richard, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…A New Scene of Thought: Studies in Romantic Realism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1: An Eighteenth-Century Scene of Thought: Some Philosophers; 2: An Eighteenth-Century Scene of Thought: Some Imaginative Writers; 3: The Idea of the Unconscious: The Prelude of 1799; 4: The Idea of the Irrational: Northanger Abbey; 5: The Idea of the Immediate: Don Juan; 6: The Idea of the Personal: "My First Acquaintance with Poets"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index…”
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Dressed in fiction by Hughes, Clair, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Dressing for the Reader The Fatal Dress: 'Roxana' Daniel Defoe Talk about Muslin: 'Northanger Abbey,' Jane Austen Unrepentant Dandies: 'Pendennis,' William Thackeray The Woman in White and the Woman in Colour: Wilkie Collins;' 'Woman in White' and Mary Braddon's 'Lady Audley's Secret' 'Mind and Millinery': George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' Shades of White: Henry James's, 'The Siege of London' and 'The Author of Beltraffio' Consuming Clothes: Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' The Missing Wedding Dresses: Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' to Anita Brookner's 'Hotel Du Lac'…”
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Mobility in the English novel from Defoe to Austen / by Ewers, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Crash: Sentimental journeys and alternative mobilities -- 6. Northanger Abbey and Austenâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;wandering storyâ#x80;#x99; -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment / by Knox-Shaw, Peter, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on chronology; CHAPTER 1 Auspices; CHAPTER 2 Pride and Prejudice, a politics of the picturesque; CHAPTER 3 Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians; CHAPTER 4 Sense and Sensibility and the philosophers; CHAPTER 5 Diffraction; CHAPTER 6 Mansfield Park: charting the religious revival; CHAPTER 7 Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty; CHAPTER 8 Persuasion: light on an old genre; CHAPTER 9 Sanditon and speculation; Select bibliography; UNPUBLISHED SOURCES; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.…”
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The eighteenth-century novel and contemporary social issues : an introduction / by Sim, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Oroonoko, or, the history of the royal slave and race relations -- The life and strange suprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, born-again theology and intelligent design -- Gulliver's travels, multiculturalism and cultural difference -- Pamela; or, virtue rewarded and sexual abstinence -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling and anti-social behavior -- The female Quixote; or, the adventures of Arabella and Northanger Abbey: the power of media and popular culture -- The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman and genetic inheritance -- The mysteries of Udolpho, a romance and family values -- Caleb Williams, or, things as they are and the surveillance society -- Waverley, or, 'tis sixty years since and disputed sovereignty -- Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus and artificial life -- The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner and fundamentalist terrorism.…”
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder / by Kareem, Sarah Tindal

Eighteenth-century influences on Jane Austen's early fiction / by Chishty-Mujahid, Nadya Q.

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The Routledge companion to Jane Austen /

Table of Contents: “…Northanger Abbey and the functions of metafiction / Jodi L. …”

The Routledge companion to Jane Austen /

Table of Contents: “…Northanger Abbey and the functions of metafiction / Jodi L. …”
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Spa culture and literature in England, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…The sense of place in Jane Austens Northanger Abbey and Persuasion -- PART II: Taking the Waters: Myth, Recreation and Satire -- Chapter 6: Bath and Bladud: The Progress of a Wayward Myth -- Chapter 7: Creatures of the Bath: Transformations at the Early Modern British Spa -- Chapter 8: Bathing in Verse: Christopher Ansteys The New Bath Guide and Georgian Resort Satire -- Chapter 9: For Music is wholesome the Doctors all think: The Curative and Restorative Function of Music in Eighteenth-Century English Spas.…”

Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder / by Kareem, Sarah Tindal

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Women, popular culture, and the eighteenth century / by Potter, Tiffany, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Women, reading, and writing -- The culinary art of eighteenth-century women cookbook authors / Robert James Merrett -- Women and letters / Isobel Grundy -- Writing bodies in popular culture: Eliza Haywood and Love in excess / Holly Luhning -- Women reading and writing for The rambler / Peter Sabor -- 'The most dangerous talent': riddles as feminine pastime / Mary Chadwick -- Comic prints, the picturesque and fashion: seeing and being seen in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey / Timothy Erwin -- pt. 3. Eighteenth-century women in modern popular culture -- Mother and daughter in Beryl Bainbridge's According to Queeney / Martha F. …”
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