Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody

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, behavi