Edited by Marilyn Gaull. An excellent resource. Includes a fine introduction, Jane Austen's life and times, table of dates, and several appendices under the category "Context" including the categories The Romance Plot; Gothic Romance, Sensibility, and the Sublime; Gothic Decline and Gothic Parody; Bath: Faery lands forlorn"; From Gothic Romance to Historical Novel; The Picturesque, Enclosures, and the Anti-Pastoral; Reviews of Northanger Abbey; Further Reading. For Dr Syntax fans, he shows up in Bath, in the section on the picturesque.  Other than a little bit of curled corner, the book is very good. Pearson Longman. 2005. USED. $8.00