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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (The Finale) (created her own fantasy…
Jane Austen's
Northanger Abbey
(The Finale)
created her own fantasy in the Abbey; questions of imagination versus reality
"II was unfortunately from home, her illness was sudden and short" Catherine's blood ran cold" (chp 23)
"of her unhappiness in marriage, she felt persuaded" "the turn of his features"
her fantasy is Gothic and wish fulfillment (her chance of making the experience real)
questions about maturity and maturation (Henry v Catherine)
uses naivety and the journey from ignorance to comment on the ways women are exchanged, ways of compulsory heterosexuality/ compulsory ways of living
ways we discipline women, ways we flatten out interesting characters in service of norms
Henry Tilney's response: "Does our education prepare us for such atrocities?" (197) raises questions of how we educate women. "Remember we are in England" (repetition and emphasizing nationality and rationality) We are Christian (emphasizing religion)
"with tears of shame she ran off to her own room" (end of 24) (begin of 25: The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened" (196). The jeapordy of too much folly on the marriage market
Austen's use of meta-fiction
Tilney and Catherine's romantic "formula"
"A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village [...] But my affair is widely different; I bring back my heroine to her home in solitude and disgrace" (224)--sets up "normal" heroine plot as successful rich hetero married; what happens if marriage is the ending?
meta-fiction as satire
The plotting!
big build up, then marriage? Unfulfilling. Maybe supports the thing it was trying to critique
the plot mirrors the form
uses marriage plot as hollow device--lays it bare; parody or mocking of Gothic tropes (hetero ever after, the normal 'heroine')
The event which it authorized soon followed: Henry and Catherine were married, the bells rand, and every body smiled; and, as this took place
the rapid pacing of the plot
mirrors the tone of her meta-fictional asides
Catherine Morland as Sidney Prescott: "final girls" commenting on the politics of the genre they are trapped in