...EVERETT ZIMMERMAN Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE FUNCTION OF PARODY IN NORTHANGER ABBEY Most studies of Northanger Abbey have noted that the central prob- lem it poses for the critic is one of unity...

... Austen, whose Northanger Abbey formulates one aspect of novelistic realism precisely through the avoidance of gothic temporality. Jesse Molesworth is assistant professor of English at Indiana University. His book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic (2010...

... familiar to modern readers, it is con- venient to start with her. The posthumous novel Northanger Abbey ( 18 18), initially titled Susan, was ready for publication in 1803and was mostly written in 1798 and 1799; it is, for practical Purposes, the first Austen novel. Its many references to other...

... Austen’s religion much thought. “Remember that we are English, that we are Christians” (Austen 2002 : 195), says Henry Tilney near the close of Northanger Abbey , in what now seems like a reprimand to careless scholars. Jager, too, reminds us how, in Austen’s world, these always come together...

... and the Writing of History, 1670 Ð 1820. By Devoney Looser. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 272 pp. The odds are good that even readers unacquainted with Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey will have encountered the description of historical study proffered by its heroine. Catherine...

... of the operation of fictions at every level of Northanger A6bey; Robert Heilman’s controlled associa- ticm and distinctions between key terms and concepts in Pride and PTejudice; and interesting observations in the essays by Stuart Tave, Karl Kroeber, and others. But on the whole the contributors give...

... that is commonly-almost con- I “Biographical Notice of the Author” (1 8 1 s), rpt. in Northanger Abbqr and Persuasion, ed. R. W. Chapman, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), p. 7. Throughout this essay I quote from Chapman’s edition of Austen’s works: Novels, 3rd ed. (1932-34);Minor Works...

... with Marianne, means something. . . . The unfelt advent of a man’s true feelings accredits not only him but the judgment of the sentimental heroine” (109, 110–11). That hopeful verdict does not cover the way Austen uses the word in Northanger Abbey , repeating her sister authors’ suspicion. Trembling in her...

... this life story to the satiric list rather than to, say, a moral autobiography in the style oE Defoe? Northanger Abbey suffers, Paulson thinks, because “Austen has not resolved in her own mind whether the book is about reality (or how to write a novel) or about character and manners, her true...

... Andrews , Pamela , Northanger Abbey , Wordsworth’s lyrics, and Keats’s odes. Miller’s work uncovers a richness of topic, but it begs for another book on the same subject to explore this richness fully. Reference Defoe Daniel . 2008 . Roxana . Edited by Mullan John . Oxford...

... of young Venezuelan ladies and the deep-rooted fears linking their read- ing to moral corruption. The novel can be contextualized in a female tradition of discourse on reading. A century before Parra, in Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen articulated “what is now often considered one of the strongest...

...-“sensibility” in Sense and Sensibility, “imagination” in Emma-and many less so: ”amiable” and “mortification” in Pride and Prejudice, “liveliness” and “idleness” in Mansjeld Park, “expectation” and “oddity,” ”artful” and “artless” in Northanger Abbey. And in discussing each novel, Tave deals...

...). Tracing the practice of matching random paintings and, increasingly, movie stills with literary classics into the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, Barchas also briefly discusses international editions with particularly striking cover illustrations, such as a 1940s Spanish translation of Northanger...

...); and so we cannot use the book as an up-to- date guide to the subject. Craik has a few new things to say. On Northanger Abbey, for instance, she shows full recognition of the specially literary quality of many of the characters and episodes; and there are some firsthand, and to me new...

... of the continual reappearance of the figure of Frank- enstein and his monster in The Realistic Imagination. The cumulative response, if my own experience is characteristic, moves from interested surprise (especially at the witty parallels drawn between Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein), to con- ditioned...

... and Expression could write this sentence about Northanger Abbey? The lies of the Thorpes and the fantasy of General Tilney as wife- murderer generated by the gothic-infatuated Catherine turn out to signify, but not something close to the sign, not a gothic but rather a worse...

... with their female precursors. Jane Austen cited Frances Burney as well as Maria Edgeworth in Northanger Abbey as the authors of works “in which the greatest powers of the mind [are] displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation...

.... BThe passage in Northanger Abbey, Chap. XIV (drafted in 1798) starting with the words “But now, really, do not you think Udolpko the nicest book in the world?” to which should be compared the passage on the word “gefallt” in Goethe’s Werther (WE I, xix, 51) : “Neulich fragte mich einer...

... write this sentence about Northanger Abbey? The lies of the Thorpes and the fantasy of General Tilney as wife- murderer generated by the gothic-infatuated Catherine turn out to signify, but not something close to the sign, not a gothic but rather a worse, because more...

... of “the angelic, and preferably dying, child.”24 The deaths of Dickens’s Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) and Paul Dombey in Dombey and Son (1848), as well as William’s meticulously detailed demise in Ellen Wood’s sensation novel East Lynne (1861), are 20 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey...