Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (ePub)

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3 (B), University of Stuttgart (Anglistics), course: Essay Writing, language: English, abstract: Northanger Abbey1 is a novel written by Jane Austen. It is one of the famous typical
romantic novels, Jane Austen is famous for. The conflict in Jane Austen's novel
develops mainly around the question how personality, wit, and breeding of the heroine(
because she always uses heroines, and never heroes ) can change everything."About
how they can overcome their problems with this features. In her novels, generally the
gentleman courts the socially rather modest situated lady. The problem is carefully
taken away from the point of the class-conflicts and switched into psychological ones."2
Her novels are generally about the eighteenth century. This becomes clear by her
objective, dramatic style of narration. She uses the form of the third person narrator, so
there's an ominiscent point of view. The reader doesn't only depend on the heroines
impressions of the other characters but also knows through the description of the author
a little more about their back-grounds.Generally one gets to know a detailed analysis
about the heroines feelings whereas those of the other characters are a little implicit.
Even though she gives clear and detailed descriptions of the other characters physical
appearances and manners, she leaves the reader a large space to interpret the actions of
feelings of them. [...]