TY - BOOK ID - 77893054 TI - Eighteenth-century influences on Jane Austen's early fiction PY - 2012 SN - 0773417532 9780773417533 9780773440531 0773440534 PB - Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press DB - UniCat KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - Women and literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Literary movements KW - Revival movements (Art) KW - Romanticism KW - Literature KW - Influence KW - History KW - Austen, Jane, KW - Radcliffe, Ann Ward, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Influence. KW - Radcliffe, KW - Radklif, Anna, KW - Ratcliffe, KW - Rattcliffe, Anne, KW - Ao-ssu-ting, KW - Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, KW - Aosiding, KW - Aosiding, Jian, KW - Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, KW - Austenová, Jane, KW - Osten, Dzheĭn, KW - Ostin, Dzhein, KW - Lady, KW - Author of Sense and Sensibility, KW - Остен, Джейн, KW - Остен, Джейм, KW - אוסטן, ג׳יין KW - אוסטן, ג׳יין, KW - أوستن، جين، UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893054 AB - This scholarly text, suitable for graduates and undergraduates alike, examines how the Gothic writing of Ann Radcliffe and the eighteenth-century novels of Fanny Barney helped to shape and hone Jane Austen's own eighteenth century literary endeavors. It specifically focuses on Austen's early works Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, and Sense and Sensibility, all of which were conceived and shaped during the last decade of the 1700's. This study closely follows the manner in which Austen eschewed the popular epistolary genre in favour of the novel-form, how she mastered the parodic-Gothic form, and ER -