Chapter 7

Jane Austen's raillery in _Northanger Abbey_; Barrett's mockery in _The Heroine_; Peacock's _Nightmare Abbey_; his praise of C.B. Brown in _Gryll Grange_; _The Mystery of the Abbey_, and its misleading title; Crabbe's satire in _Belinda Waters_ and _The Preceptor Husband_; his ironical attack on the sentimental heroine in _The Borough_; his appreciation of folktales; _Sir Eustace Grey_. Pp. 128-144.