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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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Northanger Abbey Quotes
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Northanger Abbey (1817) is a novel by Jane Austen , she completed it in 1803, before any of her other novels, but it was not published until after her death. But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their...


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Northanger Abbey eBook
71,227 words, approx. 237 pages
The complete online text of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.


Author Biography

Name: Jane Austen
Birth Date: 1775
Death Date: 1817
Place of Birth: Steventon, England
Place of Death: Winchester, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, writer

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Biography of Jane Austen
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The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century. In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as p...
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Biography of Jane Austen
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Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the educated reading public in many countries, Austen's no...
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Biography of Jane Austen
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Jane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include Henry James and Virginia Woolf, both of whom she influenced. Yet amid...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Northanger Abbey Information
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Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called)...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Plain Jane
9/25/2007: 588 words, approx. 2 pages
THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB RUNNING TIME 106 minutesDIRECTED BY Robin SwicordSTARRING Maria Bello, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Jimmy Smits Robin Swicord’s The Jane Austen Book Club, from her own screenplay, based on the eponymous novel by Karen Joy Fowler, succeeds only partially and only...
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The New York Observer
Austen in Love
7/31/2007: 1,035 words, approx. 4 pages
BECOMING JANERunning Time 120 minutesWritten by Kevin Hood and Sarah WilliamsDirected by Julian JarroldStarring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith, James Cromwell Julian Jarrold’s Becoming Jane, from a screenplay by Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams, has been admirably intended as a tribute to Jane Austen...
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AP Features
Bath, England: Springs, spa and history
5/7/2007: 1,400 words, approx. 5 pages
As a spiritual hotspot since before the Romans, Bath, England, can once again serve up a near-religious experience, thanks to its new spa. The Thermae Bath Spa opened last summer and has proved to be a hit with stressed-out Brits and tourists from all over...
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The New York Observer
On The Carpet
6/19/2005: 2,881 words, approx. 10 pages
The Transom, in its former civilian life, once had the pleasure of accompanying a local magazine's former party reporter, Elizabeth Spiers, to what they call a "red-carpet event."By now, that evening has been rendered by the haze of time into Mad Libs. The occasion was...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Paul Morrison
9,454 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Morrison undertakes a feminist, post-structural analysis of gender-specific spaces and sensibilities in Northanger Abbey.
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Critical Essay by Katrin Ristkok Burlin
8,851 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Ristkok Burlin interprets Northanger Abbey as a "single, complex treatment of the theme of fiction."
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Critical Essay by Jane Nardin
8,708 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Nardin discusses Catherine's education in the moral significance of social propriety.,
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in Northanger Abbey
1,763 words, approx. 6 pages
This essay seeks to show that Austen's use of free indirect discourse not only serves to heighten the satirical effect of her Gothic parody, but also creates an imagined community with her readers.


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