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Film and the Novels of Jane Austen

orth it for the woman who became prestige goods to be exchanged among women and also suggesting at times that Austen does indeed seem to believe rather firmly in the idea that a woman should marry if at all possible (Ash and Higton, 1995, p. 14).

A Doubled Vision: Love and Friendship

By applying traditional literary criticism to this novel, we might well come to the conclusion that Austen is attempting to depict for us a world in which women define themselves in terms of men, or in terms of the absence of men (and specifically the absence of a husband). However, a cultural critical approach that reads beyond the surface layer of the text as well as considering the social and cultural context in which this novel (this text) was produced as well as in which it was consumed, or read.

By applying such a model, we can see that in this novel money does not have nearly as much to do with friendship as it does with marriage, and this is one of the reasons that the theme of friendship between and among women is of such importance in Austen's novels รป added to the fact that the world in which Austen lived was in many ways segregated by sex, ensuring that people would draw most of their friends from their own sex. Finally, it seems clear that Austen's emphasis on the importance of female friends (including sisters and other female relatives as friends) probably stems at least in part from her own experiences as a spinster from a large family (Ash and Higton, 1995, p. 15).

Northanger Abbey is in many ways the most directly satirical of all of Austen's works, and can be seen as an overt satire on the highly popular Gothic romances of the late 18th century, especially a work like Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolfo, which centers its actions on a lonely Gothic castle in the Apennines that is in key ways strikingly like Northanger Abbey itself (Johnson, 1995, p. 110).

Austen's novel follows the travails of Catherine Morland, who wh...

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