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Classic fiction and drama · Secondary / sixth form

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

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Catherine Morland brings the expectations of Gothic fiction into unfamiliar social situations. Compare the pleasure of imagining dramatic explanations with the need to read ordinary evidence carefully; the narrator also asks readers to reconsider their assumptions about novels.

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