LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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It offers a critique of Romantic poetry and ideology.
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It serves to parody gothic novels.
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It is a horror novel.
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It is a memoir based on Jane Austen’s childhood.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Northanger Abbey, one of her first novels, contains some features of sentimentalism but in particular it is a parody of the Gothic novel, which was very popular at Austen’s time. The author employs its elements and tries to satirize them. She ridicules the people’s desire for something mysterious and supernatural.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a gothic parody, a comic send-up of the suspense-filled works of Gothic fiction in vogue in the politically volatile 1790s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Northanger Abbey follows the life and loves of its unlikely heroine, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a naïve young woman away from her family for the first time and trying to navigate the world and the heart-with all their innate complexities.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, these techniques work through style, characterization, narrative method, and narrator-reader relationship to interest readers in the novels and to encourage readers to exercise their perception.