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Description
Mind Map by Fraya Locke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fraya Locke
almost 6 years ago
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Readers and Reading
- The narrator (Austen) often steps
back from the story she's telling to
consider the fact that it is a story
- Rather than just telling us about Catherine, we learn
about Catherine as a heroine and as a fictional character
- Austen wants the reader to know that we are reading
a work of at whose features are in large part derived
from inherited conventions from other books
- Rather than just telling us about Catherine, we learn
about Catherine as a heroine and as a fictional character
- Gothic novels are referenced and satirised
- 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'
by Ann Radcliffe
- 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'
by Ann Radcliffe
- Northanger Abbey considers both the effects that
literature has on its characters as well as the effect
Northanger Abbey has on its real world readers
- Austen directly challenges the clichés
of the emerging genre in order to
solidify her own voice as a writer
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