A “Patron” of Novel Readers: Reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
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Jane Austen was a committed novel-reader whose literary life was deeply permeated by the culture of novel-reading, in the period during which her contemporaries witnessed the unprecedented rise in the production of the novel. Northanger Abbey, the most meta-fictional among Austen’s works, reads as Austen’s fictional preface to her literary career in its engagement with the culture of the novel. Northanger Abbey is peopled with those who read novels, and what the characters read and how they read in the novel is often the key to judging those characters, orchestration of which further exemplifies the assumptions, expectations, and cultural norms that contemporaries hold about reading novels. Putting her fingers on the popular contemporary trope of a heroine reading (Gothic) novels in this novel, she also invites her readers to engage with the ways in which the cultural and literary constructions of the novel and its readers are rendered and tested against each other. The interrogation of “reading a novel” is thus to be specifically situated not only within the cultural and literary context of the genre discourse but within the context of an individual reader’s negotiation of reading and life experiences. In linking the cultural trope of novel reading and the questions about the practice of reading books and life experiences, therefore, this study attempts to explore the manifold ways in which Austen probes into the culturally situated complexities of novel-reading. Allowing novels to be “patronized” by her own heroine, and thereby making herself a patron of the novel, and offering the readerly education as an author both for her heroine and her contemporary readers, this study argues that Austen deliberately empowers herself as a reader as well.
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Jane Austen was a committed novel-reader whose literary life was deeply permeated by the culture of novel-reading, in the period during which her contemporaries witnessed the unprecedented rise in the production of the novel. Northanger Abbey, the most meta-fictional among Austen’s works, reads as Austen’s fictional preface to her literary career in its engagement with the culture of the novel. Northanger Abbey is peopled with those who read novels, and what the characters read and how they read in the novel is often the key to judging those characters, orchestration of which further exemplifies the assumptions, expectations, and cultural norms that contemporaries hold about reading novels. Putting her fingers on the popular contemporary trope of a heroine reading (Gothic) novels in this novel, she also invites her readers to engage with the ways in which the cultural and literary constructions of the novel and its readers are rendered and tested against each other. The interrogation of “reading a novel” is thus to be specifically situated not only within the cultural and literary context of the genre discourse but within the context of an individual reader’s negotiation of reading and life experiences. In linking the cultural trope of novel reading and the questions about the practice of reading books and life experiences, therefore, this study attempts to explore the manifold ways in which Austen probes into the culturally situated complexities of novel-reading. Allowing novels to be “patronized” by her own heroine, and thereby making herself a patron of the novel, and offering the readerly education as an author both for her heroine and her contemporary readers, this study argues that Austen deliberately empowers herself as a reader as well.
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