Reading Fiction or Reading Character. The Different Modes of Reading in the Novel 'Northanger Abbey' by Jane Austen

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Department of English and Linguistics), Veranstaltung: Exam Preparation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Northanger Abbey was drafted in 1794, completed nine years later and finally published posthumously in 1818. It was ¿[w]ritten in response to contemporary fiction¿ and Austen herself defended her ¿outdated¿ dealings with Gothic fiction in an advertisement she had composed earlier, stating that ¿since it [the novel] was fin ...