Showing results for title "Northanger Abbey", by author "Jane Austen" in Horror

This curated collection travels through the beginnings of the Gothic Imagination, showcases the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, before unveiling the male gothic in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk and the dawn of the female gothic in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey showcases the Gothic Satire, and the collection concludes with Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time episode exploring the history of the genre and Gothic Legacy.

With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young, impressionable Catherine Morland, whose first experience of fashionable society introduces her to the thrills of gothic romances, and to the sophisticated Tilneys, who invite her to their family home, Northanger Abbey. But there, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine begins to think that terrible crimes are being committed, and her imagination threatens to run away with her.

Northanger Abbey fu il primo romanzo di Jane Austen ad essere pubblicato anche, se in precedenza erano già state stese delle versioni di Orgoglio e pregiudizio e di Ragione e Sentimento. Il suo titolo originario, Susan (nome della protagonista che fu poi mutato in Catherine) fu rivisto per la stampa dalla Austen nel 1803, e venduto ad un editore che decise poi di non pubblicarlo.

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.

Der Vater von Henry und Eleanor, General Tilney, lädt Catherine Morland ein, ein paar Wochen mit der Familie auf Northanger Abbey, einer früheren Abtei, zu verbringen. Sie nimmt die Einladung begeistert an. Das düstere Gebäude erregt ihre Phantasie sofort ungemein. Catherine ist sich sicher, dass das alte Anwesen ein dunkles Geheimnis birgt...

Die siebzehnjährige Pfarrerstochter Catherine Morland ist eine leidenschaftliche Leserin von Schauer-Romanen und hofft darauf, dass ihr Leben auch einmal so aufregend sein wird, wie das der Romanfiguren. Im vornehmen Badeort Bath, wo sie sich Dank der Güte des Ehepaars Allen sechs Wochen aufhalten darf, macht sie die Bekanntschaft des faszinierenden jungen Gentlemans Henry Tilney und seiner liebreizenden Schwester Eleanor.