Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel

Balenović, Aleksandra

undergraduate thesis

Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel

Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016. urn:nbn:hr:142:442945

Balenović, Aleksandra

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Balenović, A. (2016). Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:442945

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Balenović, Aleksandra. "Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:442945

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Balenović, A. (2016). 'Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 19 May 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:442945

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Balenović A. Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2016 [cited 2024 May 19] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:442945

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A. Balenović, "Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2016. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:442945

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Title	Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" as a Parody of the Gothic Novel
Title (croatian)	"Opatija Northanger" Jane Austen kao parodija gotičkog romana
Author	Aleksandra Balenović
Mentor	Ljubica Matek (mentor)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2016-09-23, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Theory and History of Literature
Abstract	Northanger Abbey is the first complete novel of the famous English author Jane Austen. Originally titled Susan, the novel was written in late 1700s and published in 1818. This novel is widely regarded as a parody of the Gothic novel. Jane Austen uses clichés of the Gothic novel to make her readers laugh and show how irrational they actually are. Her heroine, Catherine Morland, is an ordinary young girl that has very little in common with a typical heroine of the Gothic novel. She is so ordinary that the narrator has to keep reminding the reader that she is the heroine of the novel. Catherine likes to read Gothic novels and starts projecting her Gothic fantasies on people and places around her. Northanger Abbey is divided into two parts that take place in two different settings. The first part takes place in a village where Catherine was born and in Bath, a spa town in England where she is invited by the friends of her family, the Allens. That first part of the novel has hardly any characteristic of the Gothic novel and functions as a novel of manners. The second part of the novel takes part in Northanger Abbey, a family home of Henry Tilney, the man Catherine loves. In the abbey Catherines imagination takes flight and she sees Gothic mysteries everywhere around her and hilarity ensues. Things that are horrifying in a Gothic novel here have a rational explanation and are used to make readers laugh.
Keywords
Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:442945
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: Croatian Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resource	Text
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