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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey

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ISBN13: 9780375759178
ISBN10: 0375759174
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With her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and occasional self-delusion to guide her through life, Catherine Morland is drawn into several scrapes while vacationing at Bath and visiting Northanger Abbey. This is a great comedy of satirical wit, poking fun at the Gothic novel while emphasizing caution to the female sex. Our edition is set from the 1818 first edition and includes newly commissioned endnotes, and a reading group guide.

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"Read Northanger Abbey: worth Dickens and Pliny together. Yet it was the work of a girl. She was certainly not more than twenty-six. Wonderful creature!" Thomas B. MacAulay, Journal

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"She is a prose Shakespeare." Jonathan Lyons

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Robert Kiely is Loker Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard. His most recent books are Reverse Tradi-tion: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel and Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professors Life.

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1. Robert Kilely, in his Introduction, says that although Northanger Abbey satirizes gothic novels, what?s more significant about it is the manner in which Jane Austen bases her narrative on conversation. How is conversation used in the novel as a narrative device? How does conversation both aid and hinder the characters?

2. Jane Austen deftly shifts voices so as to allow us to see the world through Catherine?s eyes and her own eyes (often through Henry Tilney). What effects does this have on the reader?

3. What gothic elements are incorporated into the novel? What are the anti-gothic elements and figures of the novel? How does Austen juxtapose Bath and the Abbey?

4. It can be argued that Henry Tilney is a foil to John Thorpe. What other characters serve as foils to each other? Does Catherine have a foil?

5. Consider the use of sarcasm in the novel. How does Henry Tilney?s sarcasm force Catherine to think things through more thoroughly and expand her values and notions?

6. The novel depicts a disparity of class and wealth, most notably between the Thorpes and the Tilneys. What importance does social convention hold? Is there a certain relevance between class and behavior appertaining to the Thorpes and Tilneys? Is it ever justifiable to break with social convention and propriety?

7. One of the major elements in Northanger Abbey is reading, particularly reading novels. What are some of the differences between novels and reality that Austen is discerning? Is she convinced that novels are worthless? What is surprising about the way novels were perceived in the early nineteenth century?

8. ?No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her to be a heroine,? Jane Austen writes in her opening paragraph. Do you agree that Catherine is a heroine? How does she develop through the novel and what does she learn about her self and the world around her?


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ISBN:
9780375759178
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
01/08/2002
Publisher:
BALLANTINE BOOKS
Series info:
Modern Library (Paperback)
Pages:
256
Height:
.56IN
Width:
5.30IN
Thickness:
.75
Series:
The Modern Library classics
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2002
Series Volume:
368/March 2001
Author:
Robert Kiely
Author:
Jane Austen Introduction by Robert Kiely
Author:
Jane Austen
Author:
Robert Kiely
Author:
Robert (INT) Kiely
Author:
Jane Austen
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Gothic fiction
Subject:
Books and reading
Subject:
Satire
Subject:
England
Subject:
Romantic suspense fiction.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Horror tales

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