Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians

Essays in Criticism

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 319-343

  Knox Shaw, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.1093/eic/xlix.4.319     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen Coburn, II: 1804-8, (Princeton, 1961), 2719, 2719n
2. To Cassandra, 20-22 Feb. 1807, Jane Austen's Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye, (Oxford, 1995), p. 124. 'Susan' was probably begun in August 1798
3. Joseph Baretti, A Journey from London to Genoa, (1770), I, 29
4. see also vol. II, letter LVII, 'All men alike', pp. 1-6
5. A Sentimental Journey, (1768), 'In the Street' (ii)
6. Northanger Abbey, ed. Terry Castle and John Davie, (Oxford, 1990)
7. See B. C. Southam, '"Regulated Hatred" Revisited', in his Jane Austen; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion: A Casebook, (1976), 122-7
8. and Robert Hopkins, 'General Tilney and Affairs of State, Philological Quarterly, 57, (1978), pp. 213-24
9. Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, introduced by Bonamy Dobrée, (Oxford, 1980), p. viii
10. Samuel Sharp, Letters from Italy, (1766), pp. 283-5
11. Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, ed. Frederick Garber, (Oxford, 1981), p. 3
12. Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticism, ed. T. M. Raysor, (1936), p. 357
13. Ann Radcliffe, A Journey made in the Summer of 1794, (1795), pp. 13, 33
14. 'Of Civil Liberty' in David Hume: Political Essays, ed. Knud Haakonssen, (Cambridge, 1994), p. 52
15. David Hume, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, in Enquiries, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge and P. H. Nidditch, (Oxford, 1975), 9.1, (p. 271)
16. This canard seems to have been launched by Jocelyn Harris in the course of a valuable discussion of Northanger Abbey; see Jane Austen's Art of Memory, (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 26-7
17. Mr De Voltaire, The History of Charles XII King of Sweden, tr. from the French, the sixth edition, (1735), iv, v
18. A copy of this edition, signed J A, is still in the possession of the family; see David Gilson, A Bibliography of Jane Austen, (Winchester, 1997), p. 434. Jane Austen mentions Charles XII in a letter to Frank, 3 July 1813
19. Voltaire, Oeuvres Complètes, 12, (Paris, 1878)
20. Essai sur les moeurs, II, 577
21. and Jane Austen's Letters, p. 341
22. To Martha Lloyd, 12-13 November 1800, Letters, p. 59
23. For an excellent account of this debate see David Wootton, 'Hume's "Of Miracles": Probability and Irreligion' in Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. M. A. Stewart, (Oxford, 1990), pp. 191-229
24. For Jane Austen on Sherlock see Letters, p. 278
25. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, (Oxford, 1968), i, iii, xiii (p. 145)
26. 'Of Commerce', Haakonssen, p. 94
27. Treatise, i, iii, ix (p. 113)
28. 'Of Miracles', Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, x, ii, (Norton, p. 63)
29. to the Works of William Robertson, (Edinburgh, 1821), I, 31
30. See Philip Hicks, Neoclassical History and English Culture, (1996), pp. 180-2
31. See David Hume: Philosophical Historian, ed. David Norton and Richard Popkin, (Indianapolis, 1965), p. 38
32. David Hume, The History of England, 1778 edition, (reprinted New York, 1983), I, 10. A more fully drawn Caractacus is to be found in Goldsmith's version where he is given a speech in praise of Rome
33. See.David Wootton, 'David Hume, "the historian"', in The Cambridge Companion to Hume, (Cambridge, 1993), p. 300
34. The Critical Review, April 1759, p. 292
35. See Christopher Kent, 'Learning History with, and from, Jane Austen' in Jane Austen's Beginnings, ed. J. David Grey, (Ann Arbor, 1989), pp. 59-72
36. and Margaret Anne Doody's introduction to Catharine and Other Writings, (Oxford, 1993), xxvi
37. William Gilpin, Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, (1789), pp. 109-10
38. Duncan Forbes, Hume's Philosophical Politics, (Cambridge, 1975), pp. 284, 291
39. See Edward Neill, 'The Secret of Northanger Abbey', E in C, XLVII, (1997), pp. 13-32,14
40. William Gilpin, Observations on Cumberland and Westmoreland, (1786), II, p. 267
41. William Gilpin, Remarks on Forest Scenery, (1791), facsimile reprint, (Richmond, 1973)
42. M.-A. Austen-Leigh, Personal Aspects of Jane Austen, (1920), p. 33
43. Charlotte Smith, Desmond, ed. Antje Blank and Janet Todd, (1997), pp. 167-8, 333-4
44. Benjamin Thompson, Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, (1796), I, 5, 180
45. The Annual Register, 1798, 399
46. 'Southey's Colloquies' (1830) in Critical and Historical Essays, (1891), I, 233. It was in 1831 that Macaulay 'praised Miss Austen to the skies'