- Introduction to Penguin edition: Gothic (xxvii-xxxi)/Character Analysis--last section, starting on xxxi
- NA: Writing in the Marketplace (16-18)/The Novel (20-22)
- See Course Notes on reading Northanger Abbey
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?