Austen, Jane (1775 - 1817) | Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey
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SYNDY MCMILLEN CONGER (ESSAY DATE 1987)
SOURCE: Conger, Syndy McMillen. "Austen's Sense and Radcliffe's Sensibility." Gothic, n.s., 2 (1987): 16-24.
In the following essay, Conger argues that rather than denouncing Ann Radcliffe's Gothic "sensibility" in Northanger Abbey, Austen affirms its essence and expands upon its utility as both a heroic virtue and a means of achieving growth.
The intrinsic value of Northanger Abbey is still disputed, but its significance in literary history generally is not: it is viewed as a key moment in the history of the novel. Here Ann Radcliffe's Female Gothic, the last representative of a century of literary emotionalism, is parodied to death by the novel of social realism: here Louis...
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