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I’ve tried Japanese walking, mindful walking, and “hot girl” walking (read: normal walking, given a catchy name for ...
When Jane Austen visited Bath in 1799, she wrote to her sister, Cassandra, that her “first view” of the city in southwestern England had been “just as gloomy as it was last November twelvemonth.” But ...
Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.
So says Henry Tilney to Catherine Morland, the hero and heroine respectively of Jane Austen's northanger abbey (completed 1803, published posthumously in 1817). It is a neat summation of the ...
A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its ...
Thus, while staying with newly-acquired friends at their home, the Northanger Abbey of the title, Catherine imagines that all kinds of strange and wonderful events have taken place there, and even ...
Northanger Abbey could be seen as a feminist critique of the very gender structures that these trigger warnings are seeking to point out. So, what is going on?
REVIEW: Jane Austen died in 1817, just before her novel Northanger Abbey was published. She may be forgiven for dying all over again, thanks to this stage adaptation.
But in contrast with Northanger Abbey, The Empusium charts the opposite trajectory: What if a person could instead be taught to see the world as an unreasonable place, dominated by the ...
Northanger Abbey thus pushes back at the most common criticisms levelled at novels: that either they were not educational, or were teaching their readers the wrong things.