What do Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Eaton Stannard Barrett’s The Heroine, and Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey have in common?
A. The authors wrote them in the style of the Romantic period with a focus on the natural world.
B. The parodies ridicule the themes and conventions of novels from the Romantic period.
C. The authors wrote them in verse even though their preferred writing style was prose.
D. The parodies deal with the Gothic themes of fading beauty and damsels in distress.
E. The parodies ridicule the themes, elements, and conventions of Gothic literature.
