ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Jane Austen mocked its excesses in Sense and Sensibility and in Northanger Abbey stressed Catherine Morland’s ordinariness by contrast to the heroines of the novel of sensibility. ‘Gothic’ has come to mean quite a number of things by this day and age.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most significant allusion, however, is to Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, as it is the Gothic novel most frequently mentioned within this text. Notably, Jane Austen sold the manuscript of Northanger Abbey to the same firm that published Radcliffe’s novel in 1794.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mock-gothic elements in Northanger Abbey Austen’s abbey is a private home, 30 miles away from the fashionable resort town of Bath. Austen takes the trappings of the Gothic genre and moves them into the present, pulling them closer to home. She recycled its narrative elements, while gently mocking the form as a whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is widely considered as a parody of the Gothic novel, especially Gothic novels written by Ann Radcliffe.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most literary critics refer to Northanger Abbey as Jane Austen’s “Gothic parody” because it satirizes the form and conventions of the Gothic novels that were popular during the time when Austen wrote Northanger Abbey.