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Northanger Abbey
| Author: | Jane Austen |
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John Murray, 1817 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Gothic Humorous Horror |
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Film & Television Adaptations
Northanger Abbey
Masterpiece Theatre
3/25/2007
Northanger Abbey
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
2/15/1987
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels, among which Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is a favourite.
When Catherine Moorland is asked to go to Bath, she is immersed in the world of attentive men and elaborate balls. But when one of her suitors takes her to his family estate, Northanger Abbey, she becomes lost in the gothic mystery which surrounds it.
Besides exploring social and romantic themes, it also satirised the excesses of the 'gothic' novels that were popular at the time. In this context the famous horror writer H.P. Lovecraft described it as a "merited rebuke to a school which had sunk far towards absurdity".
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