(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Northanger Abbey" is a perfectly
aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the
commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn
of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the
initiation into life of its naive but sweetly appealing heroine,
Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for
Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine
of a dark and thrilling romance. When she is invited to Northanger
Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor,
Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of
misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common
sense and humor-and a crucial clarification of Catherine's
financial status-resolve her problems and win her the approval of
Henry's formidable father. Written in 1798 but not published until
after Austen's death in 1817, "Northanger Abbey" is
characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in
its comedy.
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