Northanger Abbey Flow Chart

Northanger Abbey

Key Ideas
reading and interpreting (Gothic novels) - friendship and marriage - custom and manners in "society" - narrator--narration (novel's structure)

Novel & Novelty
reading/social trends and customs

Gothic Novel

Catherine as a heroine

Mrs. Allen/Gen. T

Meaning of Friendship & Marriage
Friendship among women as an alternative to marriage

Function of marriage

Freedom/Independence (Men and Women)

Social World of the Novel
"the little bit of Ivory"

country life/society of Bath

Northanger Abbey/Woodston

Gen. T: Improvement/capitalism

Passages
Beechen Cliff: 1.14--reading/
history/education

Reading novels: 1.5/1.6/2.9/2.10

Catherine as heroine

Passages
Marriage and dancing: 1.10--dancing is emblematic of marriage and society (social manners and customs)

Passages
Friendship: 1.4--balm for pangs of disappointed love/as duty 1.9/1.13/2.12

Final marriages

Passages
Bath: 1.2/1.3

Fashion: 1.10

NA: 2.2/ 2.5 /2.6/ 2.8

Woodston: 2.11

Narrator
self-reflexive and ironic?: e.g., pgs 20/33/86/106/235

Morland's home 1.1/2.14/2.15

Romanticism
Is JA a Romantic writer?