The Dialogic Mode in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: The Manorial Gothic Meets a Subversive Novel of Manners
The Dialogic Mode in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: The Manorial Gothic Meets a Subversive Novel of Manners

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes to read the dialogue of two generic traditions: the novelof manners and gothic fiction in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. The genericdialogue in Northanger Abbey constitutes a particularly interesting case, asit appears at the very inception of the manorial tradition in fiction and thusbears a strong modelling function. The paper argues that Northanger Abbeyrepresents a subversive version of the novel of manners, which contextualizesand substantiates the transgressive character of the gothic.

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