You’reinvited to the Wilkinson College Alumni Book Club: JaneAusten’s Northanger Abbey.

In Northanger Abbey Jane Austenparodies the Gothic novels of the 1790s that were best sellers in her youth.Northanger Abbey was the fi rst of Jane Austen’s novels to be completed forpublishing and references The Mysteries of Udolpho, a novel by Gothic writerAnne Radcliffe. The novel explores the differences between fi ction and realityand questions the nature of its characters: who can be trusted and who is atrue friend. Northanger Abbey is more obviously comedic than any of her laternovels and was most likely written for the enjoyment of her family because ofthe use of literary illusions that her family would have enjoyed. Jane Austenwas cautious about publishing this novel after the success of her other novels,because she was concerned that the Gothic novel she was parodying had gone outof fashion. But, nearly 200 years after its eventual publication, the Gothicseems to be as popular as ever.

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