In reference to the Northanger Canon I’ve often featured Valancourt Books on this site. Valancourt Books in an independent micro press that seeks out and publishes rare and often forgotten works from the past, including several titles in the Northanger Canon. The boys at Valancourt are doing great things for 18th century literature by editing [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Northanger Cannon’
December 24, 2008
La Terreur: The Northanger Canon
I’m so chuffed to find that three of the Northanger Canon titles have made their way onto Valancourt Books‘ bestsellers list for 2008.
The Northanger Canon is a selection of 18th century Gothic fiction immortalized by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey. Other than the two Radcliffe works, the ‘horrid novels’ were belived to be a delightfully [...]
June 22, 2007
Sublime Anxiety: The Northanger Canon
The Northanger Canon is the collection of late 18th century ‘horrid’ Gothic novels that feature in the first work that Austen sold to a publisher, Northanger Abbey.
The book itself, first written in 1798 but not published until 1817, is a defense of the novel as an art form, a celebratory sending up of Gothic fiction [...]
