Representing femininity in gothic novel
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2017
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university of Oum- El- Bouaghi
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The Following research is a study of representing femininity in Jane Austen's Northanger abbey this dissertation, accordingly, attempts to analyze the female characters in Jane Austen 's novel by describing them and categorize each one of them, the objective of this study thus to examine how the character of this novel contributed in making it gothic literary work, also to shed light on the depiction of women in Austen's novel. In addition, to investigate that this novel is a female gothic novel. In order to reach this point this research will be divided into three chapters the first chapter will highlight the female gothic representation of femininity, by introducing the gothic genre and show the characteristics of the female gothic the second chapter will extract a different examples from the text in which justify the nature of the novel as female gothic . Finally, from reading Austen's Northanger Abbey the depiction and the presence of women in the novel are different from character toanother.
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female gothic, Gothic genre, Female gothic