Women Reprimanding Women: The Gothic Parody and its Social Criticism by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

“…The use of humor in the Gothic parody serves to “normativize” the heroine of the Gothic parody, which will be exemplified by Mary Charlton’s Rosella (1799) and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1817). Despite the similarities in their plots, the novels differ in their application of parody directed at the protagonist. …”
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