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⌈ Secret Post #5504 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It's interesting that you say that because I think "not like the other girls" is a more prominent concept in writing which is aware of the rigidness of gendered society, because if the writer is a woman, they are more aware of which girls can't manage success in an oppressive ideal way and so they denigrate the methods of success as "false" or "silly". It's seems less complex, nor more.

Jane Austen can say that she's not trying to denigrate gothic novels, but in both Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey she has little sympathy for the way her society has set up women to find solace in them. Isabella, Maria, Julia, and Mary are varying degrees of horrible, but the framing of them always somehow reads like not being content with their social limitations is what makes them horrible.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Huh? Northanger Abbey is a deliberate piss take of Gothic novels.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Northanger Abbey seemed more of an affectionate piss-take, to me.

And also, there *was* something deeply messed up about the Abbey and the family that lived there - Catherine was at least half-right - it's just that it was the more mundane abusive parent.