Catherine finds reality veering from her favorite Gothic novels in Northanger Abbey, one of Jane Austen's posthumous works.
Northanger Abbey is widely perceived to be a parody of the Gothic novels of the time, as well as full of Austen's pointed observations about marriage, wealth, and society.
Austen riffing so much on the tropes of Gothic fiction, from moody landowners to imprisoned wives to mysterious castles, sets this apart from some of her more serious works. A fun read.
I chose this to read along with a class trip to London and Bath with my wife's collegiate field study. I listened to it on audiobook on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library.
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