1st Edition

Elizabeth Meeke’s The Abbey of Clugny A Critical Edition

Edited By Bridget Donnelly Copyright 2026
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

The Abbey of Clugny itself is a formulaic novel, using misattributions of identity, disguises, and alternative identities to make up for an often-lackluster plot. While such a description is hardly a glowing endorsement of the text, one corrective a critical edition of the novel could offer is to provide a character list to help readers track these various character names and identities. The novel... Read more

Series Preface  Editorial Note and Acknowledgments  1. Introduction  2. Elizabeth Meeke’s The Abbey of Clugny  Editorial Notes  Appendix: Contemporary Reviews of and References to The Abbey of Clugny

Biography

Bridget Donnelly is an Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She has research interests in the rise of the eighteenth-century novel and the history of Gothic literature.