The Dialogic Mode in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: The Manorial Gothic Meets a Subversive Novel of Manners
Journal Title: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature - Year 2019, Vol 43, Issue 2
Abstract
The paper proposes to read the dialogue of two generic traditions: the novel of manners and gothic fiction in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. The generic dialogue in Northanger Abbey constitutes a particularly interesting case, as it appears at the very inception of the manorial tradition in fiction and thus bears a strong modelling function. The paper argues that Northanger Abbey represents a subversive version of the novel of manners, which contextualizes and substantiates the transgressive character of the gothic.
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Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
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- DOI 10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.19-30
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