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	Melissa Schaub
		Northanger Abbey, as the earliest of Austen’s novels to be completed and the one that refers most overtly to its political context, is an ideal site for observing the competition of these schools.
		Northanger Abbey exemplifies, perhaps unconsciously, the panopticism of the industrial capitalist society that was coming into being during its period—this is how Paul Morrison describes the novel’s embodiment of the "domestic carceral." Thus Catherine is educated into being a good subject of the state without Austen intending it.
		Northanger Abbey (and the larger project of novelistic realism) is a survival manual, not a revolutionist’s handbook.
	www.jasna.org /persuasions/on-line/vol21no1/schaub.html (3950 words)

	Amazon.com: Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics): Books: Jane Austen,Marilyn Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Her overactive imagination runs wild in Northanger Abbey, bringing her a fair share of embarrassment, but the very sweet and tender sensibilities that fuel her fire for Gothic mystery make her all the more endearing to me. Catherine is remarkably innocent, and as such she is absolutely delightful in my eyes.
		Greed, selfishness, pride-these are the horrors of Northanger Abbey, and it does deeply hurt a reader of romantic sensitivity to stand idly by, unable to aid and assist a sweet young lady such as Catherine in her time of despair and emotional suffering.
		I mention her youth because it pervades Northanger Abbey; the character are youthful in spirit, and I think that of all her novels, this one might be the most accessible to the modern day younger reader.
	www.amazon.com /Northanger-Abbey-Penguin-Classics-Austen/dp/0140434135 (2959 words)

	Country houses - Northanger Abbey
		Northanger Abbey would originally have been built no later than the end of the 15th century as the Dissolution of the Monasteries took place in 1539.
		Northanger Abbey was built around a central courtyard which would originally have been cloistered but which 250 years after privatisation Jane Austen describes as a quadrangle (II,5 p.141).
		Northanger Abbey certainly had efficiency and order and the words ‘comfort’, ‘convenience’, ‘elegance’ and ‘luxury’ are used frequently in its description.
	www.jasa.net.au /houses/northanger.htm (1601 words)

	The Blue Room Theatre- Northanger Abbey
		The Blue Room Theatre is proud to present, Northanger Abbey the latest play by Lynn Marie Macey March 13-29 running every Thursday, Friday and Saturday and one Sunday performance March 23, all shows are at 7:30pm.
		In this theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, the theme of the peril of confusing life and art is revisited with surprising results.
		Northanger Abbey itself concerns a typical Austen heroine, the young Catherine Morland who is taken to the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends the Allens.
	www.blueroomtheatre.com /__history/Spring2003/NorthangerAbbey.htm (293 words)

	SparkNotes: Northanger Abbey: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		Northanger Abbey portrays Catherine in situations common to teenagers: she faces peer pressure when James, Isabella and John urge her to join them on their carriage trips, for example, and must contend with the bullying John Thorpe.
		Throughout Northanger Abbey, Catherine finds herself unable to "read between the lines." She does not notice the obvious romance developing between James and Isabella, she does not understand why Frederick Tilney gets involved, she has no idea why the General is so kind to her.
		Northanger Abbey, however, is probably as much a product of the Gothic novels that Austen read as it is a product of her own experience.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/northangerabbey/themes.html (1222 words)

	§3. "Northanger Abbey". X. Jane Austen. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		As the source of Joseph Andrews was the desire to ridicule Pamela, so the source of Northanger Abbey was the desire to ridicule such romantic tales as The Mysteries of Udolpho by Mrs.
		Be that as it may, Northanger Abbey has more in it of the spirit of youthfulness than any of the other novels.
		Its idea was, apparently, intended to be the contrast between a normal, healthy-natured girl and the romantic heroines of fiction; and, by showing the girl slightly affected with romantic notions, Jane Austen exhibits the contrast between the world as it is and the world as imagined by the romancers whom she wished to ridicule.
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	Northanger Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Northanger Abbey book coverNorthanger Abbey was the first of Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
		He eventually invites her to visit his father's estate, Northanger Abbey, which, because she has been reading Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Catherine expects to be dark, ancient and full of fantastical mystery.
		Northanger Abbeyexposes the difference between reality and fantasy and questions who can be trusted as a true companion and who might actually be a shallow, false friend.
	northanger-abbey.iqnaut.net (278 words)

	Amazon.ca: Northanger Abbey: Books: Jane Austen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.
		"Northanger Abbey", which preceded both of them but was published only after her death, is a clever parody of the Gothic novel as written by Anne Radcliffe: full of dark, stormy nights, ancient castles with secret passages and locked rooms hiding unspeakable crimes, damsels in distress, and all the rest.
		"Northanger Abbey" is a good first novel but it is by no means Jane Austen's best, and Catherine is not as interesting a heroine as Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Watson or Elinor Dashwood; she's a somewhat shallow, undeveloped young lady who lacks their depth and their intelligence.
	www.amazon.ca /Northanger-Abbey-Jane-Austen/dp/1572701188 (2156 words)

	Northanger Abbey: The Upcoming Movie!- News: Last Updated September 16, 2000
		Northanger Abbey will be the last of Austen's six major novels to be brought to the screen during the past eight years.
		Davies regarding the future of NA2, he stated that ITV still maintains the rights to Northanger Abbey, however, Costume Dramas are notoriously expense to film and with current budget cuts, the project has been continually delayed.
		Yet another Jane Austen novel is slated for a feature future, this time Austen's gothic romance, "Northanger Abbey." Miramax, which released Paltrow's delightful turn as Austen's Emma, is planning a $6 mil adaptation of the novel, to be scripted by Circle of Friends scribe Andrew Davies.
	tackytree.tripod.com /northanger/news.html (1957 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 11 (August 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Though Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is the earliest novel she wrote, it was not published until after her death, and then in conjunction with Persuasion.
		At the time, Northanger Abbey met with the sort of praise Austen was, and is, generally afforded: it is morally upright, the characters suitably true-to-life, and the dialogue humourous and well-crafted.
		Though the publication history was most likely frustrating to Austen and is interesting to us in terms of the preface Austen wrote and the revisions she made between 1803 and her death in 1817, it is not surrounded by curious and inexplicable happenings worthy of the Gothic genre, and should not be described as such.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/1998/v/n11/005810ar.html (746 words)

	Northanger Abbey Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Catherine is invited to the Tilney's home, the Northanger Abbey of the title, where she imagines numerous gruesome secrets surrounding the General and his house.
		There Catherine's imagination runs wild: she becomes convinced that Northanger Abbey is like the setting of a gothic novel and that General Tilney had murdered his late wife.
		It is one of the deeper ironies of Northanger Abbey that the gothic violence that Catherine imagines is dispelled, only to be replaced by a more rational view of the world that is almost as dark.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/english/English151W-03/austen[naplot].htm (649 words)

	Adaptations of Northanger Abbey
		She is introduced to gothic novels, and a visit to Northanger Abbey fuels a deepening obsession, until Catherine's mind is so dominated by fantasy that the edges of fiction and reality begin to blur.
		Because the narrator of Northanger Abbey establishes Catherine and her adventures as a parody of Gothic novels, all Northanger Abbey adapters face the challenge of incorporating Gothic elements and themes into an Austenian comedy of manners.
		Northanger Abbey: A Romantic Gothic Comedy is a thoughtful, detailed, and lively interpretation of its two source novels and the Theater Ten Ten cast delivered a fresh, energetic performance.
	www.solitary-elegance.com /na-adapt.htm (11355 words)

	Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Criticism and Essays
		The setting shifts from Bath to Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of the Tilneys, when John deceives General Tilney, Henry's father, into believing that Catherine is an heiress.
		While ostensibly a burlesque of the conventional modes of Gothic horror fiction, Northanger Abbey is also a novel of education that focuses on the theme of self-deception.
		In addition, critics have considered Northanger Abbey a transitional work, one that moves away from the burlesque mode of the Juvenilia and toward the stylistic control of such masterpieces as Mansfield Park and Emma.
	www.enotes.com /nineteenth-century-criticism/abbey-northanger-jane-austen (932 words)

	Northanger Abbey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Northanger Abbey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Northanger Abbey, satirical novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1818.
		Despite being an early composition, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey was a posthumous publication, appearing in 1818.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Northanger_Abbey.html (102 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - Reading on Open2 - Northanger Abbey
		There is certainly a striking contrast between her and the manipulative social-climber Isabella Thorpe, whose behaviour reveals her to be shallow and false.
		‘Northanger Abbey’ meets many of the criteria for realist works, but also parodies both sentimental novels and Gothic texts - resulting in a fascinating blend of different genres.
		Catherine, who is heavily influenced by the books she reads, anticipates what she will encounter at the Abbey; however her expectations are dashed.
	www.open2.net /reading/northanger.html (349 words)

	Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 20
		To raise your spirits, moreover, she gives you reason to suppose that the part of the abbey you inhabit is undoubtedly haunted, and informs you that you will not have a single domestic within call.
		To pass between lodges of a modern appearance, to find herself with such ease in the very precincts of the abbey, and driven so rapidly along a smooth, level road of fine gravel, without obstacle, alarm, or solemnity of any kind, struck her as odd and inconsistent.
		The breeze had not seemed to waft the sighs of the murdered to her; it had wafted nothing worse than a thick mizzling rain; and having given a good shake to her habit, she was ready to be shown into the common drawing-room, and capable of considering where she was.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/jane_austen/northanger_abbey/20 (2095 words)

	Northanger Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction.
		Northanger Abbey exposes the difference between reality and fantasy and questions who can be trusted as a true companion and who might actually be a shallow, false friend.
		An adaptation of Northanger Abbey is being developed by Andrew Davies for ITV television network's 2007 'Season of Jane Austen'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northanger_Abbey (2943 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
		Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century.
		When she is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortiﬁcation, until common sense and humor–and a crucial clariﬁcation of Catherine’s ﬁnancial status–resolve her problems and win her the approval of Henry’s formidable father.
		Northanger Abbey is a delightful novel, but also a serious one, and the first completely to master the stylistic method that would become the hallmark of its author’s art: irony.” –from the Introduction by Claudia L. Johnson
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679417156 (280 words)

	Northanger Abbey
		When Catherine visits Northanger he seems to become more aloof (though it is not clear how far he really does so, and how far Catherine imagines that he does), giving Catherine occasion to conceive the preposterous notion that he has done away with the late Mrs.
		When she is shown to her room at the abbey, though she notes that it is unlike the one Henry has described to her, yet she soon finds a mystery in it, in the form of a large high chest pushed away into a recess.
		The antiquity and history of Northanger Abbey suggest to Catherine (in advance of her visit there) that it will be a suitable location for “Horrid Mysteries”, but the abbey turns out to be thoroughly modern, comfortable and cheerful.
	www.universalteacher.org.uk /prose/northangerabbey.htm (4954 words)

	SparkNotes: Northanger Abbey: Plot Overview
		Northanger Abbey is the coming-of-age story of a young woman named Catherine Morland.
		On the way, Catherine tells Henry how she imagines the Abbey to resemble the haunted ruins of the Gothic novels she loves.
		Northanger Abbey turns out to be quite dull, having been fixed up by General Tilney.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/northangerabbey/summary.html (1264 words)

	Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Mobipocket eBook
		Although Northanger Abbey was not published until after Jane Austen's death in 1817, it was one of her first novels.
		Northanger Abbey is, in part, Austen's response to Gothic novels, like Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, which were enjoying tremendous popularity in the late seventeeth and early eighteenth centuries, and to their devoted readers.
		When she is invited to stay with the Tilneys in their seemingly foreboding abbey, she fears that it is the kind of terrible place described in the novels she devours.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/92403-ebook.htm (677 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
		Northanger Abbey was written in the late 1790s, but published only posthumously.
		Although Northanger Abby was the first book Austen sold, it was one of the last published.
		Austen flatters the reader of Northanger Abbey by allowing him/her to see and understand things the heroine does not.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/northanger_abbey1.asp (770 words)

	Chapter 3--Northanger Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Northanger Abbey has a motive and a story, but the bearing of the story on the motive is very obscure, and, so far as the obscurity is penetrable, unsatisfactory.
		Catherine spends several weeks at Northanger Abbey by invitation of Henry's father, General Tilney, by whose order she is later on ejected from the house with a cruel abruptness unsoftened by explanations.
		Now John Thorpe's bluster hardly imposes on the artless Catherine, whose ignorance at eighteen is abysmal; General Tilney is a man of the world: yet in a matter vital to his interest General Tilney reposes implicit confidence in the word of a stranger whose flguardism is vociferous.
	home.earthlink.net /~lfdean/austen/firkins/chapter3.html (3751 words)

	Northanger Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The result is a swashbuckling journey through Catherine's two worlds, culminating in her unexpected visitation to the Tilney's mysterious estate, Northanger Abbey.
		Northanger Abbey is loaded with incident after incident, and at more than two-and-a-half hours there's a lot of information to take in.
		Northanger Abbey is blessed with a talented cast that embraces the language and social conventions of the period as if they were their own.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/nort4302.htm (952 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Northanger Abbey
		Librivox recording of Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen.
		Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels.
		The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many "horrid" gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror -- but the superficial world of Bath proves hazardous enough.
	www.archive.org /details/northanger_abbey_librivox (72 words)

	Full text and plot summary of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
		Northanger Abbey was written in 1798, although it was not published until after her death when it was compiled with her final novel, Persuasion.
		It is notable for being a fierce parody of the late 18th century Gothic style's fainting heroines, 'terror' (giving hints of something fantastic but dreadful, only to quash it later with mundane truth) and haunted medieval buildings.
		Austen's comparatively thin novel as good as destroyed Radcliffe's reputation for almost two centuries and the exciting gothic writ large of Udolpho is only now being reassessed.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/6/10 (298 words)

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