“Yes, I have been reading it ever since I woke and I am got to The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the worldĮnthusiastic readings of Udolpho, other gothic novels, and interest in the “horrid”:īut, my dearest Catherine, what have you been doing with yourselfĪll this morning? Have you gone on with Udolpho?” Rough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, Greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough Only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ’ or in short, only some work in which the She lays down her book with affected indifference or momentary shame.–‘It is You reading, Miss-–?’ ‘Oh! it is only a novel!” replies the young lady when
–It is really very well for a novel.’–Such is the common cant.–‘And what are Reader–I seldom look into novels–Do not imagine that I often read novels Which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. “here seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacityĪnd undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances Public opinion of novels as inferior artforms vs. In the following passages taken from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, the narrator and characters in the work make comments about the Gothic novel that may be representative of Austen’s feeling toward the genre.
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