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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Northanger Abbey"”.
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More than Gal Pals: Female Romantic Friendships in Northanger Abbey
… investment in the relationships between women. Northanger Abbey (1818) features such relationships as a key part of its protagonist, Catherine Morland’s, development. This thesis looks to the historical context of the novel and identifies the relationships between Catherine Morland and her …
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : the education of Catherine Morland.
This thesis argues for a view of Austen's Northanger Abbey as the story of Catherine Morland, a young woman in search of an education. While Catherine's formal training has been nominal before the novel's beginning, the heroine attains various types of education in a short span of time, thereafter. …
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Through the Female Perspective: An Analysis of Male Characters in Jane Austen’s <em>Northanger Abbey</em>
… scholars have long examined Austen’s <em>Northanger Abbey</em> with a central focus on the female characters, the narrator, the lack of education of upper-middle class women, and overall satire of gothic tropes. This essays turns away from the predominantly feminine focus by delving into …
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"A thorough knowledge of human nature": An application of George Campbell's "Philosophy of Rhetoric" to selected novels of Jane Austen
Early in the course of Northanger Abbey, one of her earliest written novels, Jane Austen withdraws from the narrative to confront readers with an impassioned defense of the novel. Although many readers and critics may gloss over this defense, it is one of the most important passages in all of …
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Breaking Through Walls and Pages: Female Reading and Education in the 18th Century British Novel
… Frances Burney’s Evelina, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey depict education and reading in the novels. Novel reading is positive for the females in the novels, despite the fear that existed of women being seduced by novel reading and romance. Ultimately, I show why these novelists choose …
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Blending Birth and Behavior: Masculine Representations of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Manners
… Frances Burney’s Evelina, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. While I do not purport to fill this evident gap in scholarship, I would like to offer a glimpse into it. Overall, I hope to contribute to the current body of criticism by demonstrating that the male characters within this …
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… re-read works by major authors Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey) and Henry James (“The Jolly Corner”), and works by popular author Anne Rice (with a particular focus on the character Lestat and the later novel Tale of the Body Thief). Similar to the Foucauldian notion of the subject as …
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A critical examination of three Jane Austen fragments and their bearing on her completed novels
… (1804) and Sanditon (1817). By showing that Northanger Abbey was neither her first attempt at fiction nor Persuasion her last, I argue that a study of these fragments deepens our insight into her creative processes, showing some unexpected shifts of tone and emphasis not immediately apparent …