Introduction -- English monasteries and the nostalgic tradition -- Competing views of the past: Austen and the story of the Reformation -- "Walking among the ruins of the abbeyland" : Austen's encounters in the sacred landscape -- Austen's sacrilege narrative: Northanger Abbey and the transformation of ecclesiastical property -- The stripping of the altars: Mansfield Park and the erosion of the sacred landscape -- A place of pilgrimage?: Sanditon and the sacred -- Conclusion.
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