What is Jane Austen writing about in Northanger Abbey: Advocacy of Parental Tyranny or Filial Disobedience?
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This paper seeks to readdress Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey, completed in 1803, by applying Michael McKeon’s theoretical framework which defines the English novel as a genre of instabilities narrating conflicts of class and social identity during the eighteenth century. Although McKeon’s textual analysis covers up to the 1740s and does not include Austen, his theoretical paradigm concerning “Questions of Truth” and “Questions of Virtue” outline the “instabilities” of class and social identity experienced by Austen’s hero and heroine in their struggle to override parental tyranny and avoid punishment from filial disobedience. Austen depicts how her characters, both intentionally and unintentionally, reject being victimized in the marriage market. Applying McKeon, I delineate how Austen challenges the class system and redefines social identity in her last chapter, by introducing a new paradigm in which parental tyranny is not in conflict with filial disobedience.
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This paper seeks to readdress Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey, completed in 1803, by applying Michael McKeon’s theoretical framework which defines the English novel as a genre of instabilities narrating conflicts of class and social identity during the eighteenth century. Although McKeon’s textual analysis covers up to the 1740s and does not include Austen, his theoretical paradigm concerning “Questions of Truth” and “Questions of Virtue” outline the “instabilities” of class and social identity experienced by Austen’s hero and heroine in their struggle to override parental tyranny and avoid punishment from filial disobedience. Austen depicts how her characters, both intentionally and unintentionally, reject being victimized in the marriage market. Applying McKeon, I delineate how Austen challenges the class system and redefines social identity in her last chapter, by introducing a new paradigm in which parental tyranny is not in conflict with filial disobedience.
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