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A 10 page research paper/essay that examines Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey as a parody of the sentimental and gothic novels that were popular during the late the eighteenth century. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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nineteenth century commentator, for example, Julia Kavanagh wrote in 1862 that Austen "saw"- "the simply good, the dull, the lively, the mean, the coarse, the selfish, the frivolous, she saw
and painted with a touch so fine that we often do not perceive its severity" (Kavanagh 254). Critics have noted also that in Austens writing, as with Henry Fielding, she
enjoys lampooning pomposity and bringing it down to earth. This approach to the writing fiction was quite unlike the conventions established in either the sentimental or Gothic novels, which
were both popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Marsh 233). Austen adhered to the template set by Fielding and kept her attention confined to what she
observed about human nature within the context of her own environment and the contemporary society of rural England (Marsh 233). Nevertheless, while this is generally true of Austens work, she
also exercised her considerable wit in the form of satire that was directed at those fashionable "novels of romantic sentiment and horror" that were the standard of her day (Marsh
233). One of the key characteristics of these novels was the way in which they addressed emotion. Her novel Northanger Abbey parodies these novels and their conventions, particularly in
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion and the passions, as well as the difficulties the na?ve
heroine encounters in comprehending the emotions/passions of others. In so doing, the ways in which Austen places her novel within the conventions of both the sentimental and the Gothic novel
will also be investigated. Todays readers of eighteenth century novels are frequently astounded by the level of melodrama that was commonplace at this time. The middle decades of the
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