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

2019; Volume: 43; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.19-30

2450-4599

Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga,

Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

<p>The paper proposes to read the dialogue of two generic traditions: the novel of manners and gothic fiction in Jane Austen’s <em>Northanger Abbey</em>. The generic dialogue in <em>Northanger Abbey</em>constitutes a particularly interesting case, as it appears at the very inception of the manorial tradition in fiction and thus bears a strong modelling function. The paper argues that <em>Northanger Abbey</em>represents a subversive version of the novel of manners, which contextualizes and substantiates the transgressive character of the gothic.</p>