English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1232 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Northanger Abbey and the Gothic
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The idea
Northanger Abbey, completed in seventeen ninety-nine and published after Austen's death, is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels. Its naive heroine, Catherine Morland, distorts her world through the Gothic fiction she loves and slowly learns to see it as it is.
In practice
A Gothic reader misreads real life.
Where people slip
Austen parodies the Gothic.
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