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Northanger Abbey
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 1818
- Spice
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Catherine Morland, a young woman enthralled by Gothic novels, is invited to Northanger Abbey, the imposing ancestral home of her suitor Henry Tilney. At the abbey, her imagination—fueled by Gothic literature—draws her into a series of misapprehensions, social embarrassments, and mortifications. The novel satirizes both the commercial realities of marriage among the English gentry and the conventions of Gothic romance, as Catherine's romantic illusions are gently dismantled by common sense and humor. The resolution hinges on a clarification of Catherine's financial circumstances, bringing the comedy to a satisfying close.
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- Coming of Age: “the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland” source
- Gothic: “a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance” source
- Regency: “the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century” source
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