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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (Chapter 1-10) (Catherine Moreland (has a big…
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
(Chapter 1-10)
Catherine Moreland
naive and has assumptions based off little evidence: "there are more ways than one of us being sisters" (Catherine misrecognizes heterosexual desire/marriage)
has a big thing for novels: Mr. Thorpe is less attractive b/c of no novel reading. Besties with Isabella bc of novels: pg 62 list of favorite Gothic novels: "but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid"? (62)
Gothic novels: pleasure in the genre/formula of it all
pleasure shakes them out of boredom; women's lives marked by dress and who she dances with
juxtaposes "sweetness" of Miss Andrews with "horrid" novels
Opening line: born to be a heroine: used to critique models/stereotypes of novelestic women
Catherine's age, not a remarkable start
very moderate: her parents are just folks
"thin, awkward figure"
the stress of having to be a woman in social/public places
Uses of meta-fiction:
"If the heroine of one novel cannot be patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?" (59) chp 5. Kind of a novelistic "aside". Satire? Exposing how women readers are depicted in novels;
Attempts to bring the novel down to earth for her heroines
the gendering of reading: it seems like novels=lady. Mr Thorpe and the assumptions of reading (71); shows Mr. Thorpe's intellectual ability (or not). "I never read novels; I have something else to do" (71)
meta-fiction to mirror the ways men take up more textual space/bravado/self-assured in their opinions
the use of the ball
shows ownership (of women), placed under control
feels modern with the sense of masculine pride in public
we look for resistence in the background/stifled under the constraints
Mrs. Allen and Thorpe go head to head with babies and reproduction versus wealth