Northanger Abbey (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Austen
- First Published: 1818
- Type of Work: Satirical Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Values, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Literature, Betrayal, Friendship, Social life, Brothers and sisters, Eighteenth century, Wit or humor, Imagination, Clergy, Gossip, Naivete
- Locales: Bath, England
Catherine Morland, the protagonist, is an enthusiastic reader of Gothic novels. She expects her life to be like those she reads about, despite the fact that she is no storybook creature--neither beautiful nor clever nor rich, just a country parson’s daughter in a large, happy family.
Like the maidens in romances, though, Catherine ventures away from home. Instead of some exotic locale, she visits Bath, where she enjoys ordinary resort pleasures with amiably normal English folk. Of her new acquaintances, the most agreeable are a witty young clergyman, Henry Tilney, and his...
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