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{{quote|No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. |'''Opening Line'''}}▼
| title = Northanger Abbey
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| central theme = The dangers of fancying oneself [[Genre Savvy]]
| elevator pitch = A Cloudcuckoolandish young lady believes that she is in a Gothic Romance novel. She is actually in a Regency one, and reality ensues on her.
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| publication date = December 1817
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▲{{quote|No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
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{{quote|I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
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The definitive Gothic parody, ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' was [[Jane Austen]]'s first completed novel, which she wrote as "Susan". However, circumstances prevented the novel from being published until ''after her death'' in 1817.
The fourth of ten children, and eldest daughter, 17-year-old Catherine Morland is a [[Tomboy]] grown into a major [[Gothic Novel]] fan girl. She's become so involved in reading that she fancies herself as the heroine of such a work as ''[[The Mysteries of Udolpho]]''. One day, she is invited to come along with the childless Allens for a trip to the spring resort of Bath. There, she meets two families, the Thorpes and the Tilneys. The Thorpes' eldest son, the egocentric twit John, tries to woo her. However, Catherine fancies the Tilneys' second son, the gentleman Henry. Henry's father, General Tilney, invites Catherine over to the Tilneys' estate, the eponymous Northanger Abbey. There, Catherine's expectations of the world clash with bitter reality.
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Countering the [[Adaptation Overdosed]] tendency of Austen's other works, this has to be the least adapted of all her works. It was twice adapted into [[Made for TV Movie|Made for TV Movies]], once by [[The BBC]] in 1986 and once by [[ITV]] in 2007. Marvel Illustrated is releasing a [[Comic Book Adaptation]] starting November 2011, script by Nancy Butler, pencils and inks by Janet Lee, and covers by Julian Totino Tedesco.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: General Tilney might be seen as emotionally abusive. His behavior to his children goes from overbearing to tyrannising and it's clear that Eleanor fears him. Catherine even wonders why his children are always so sedate when he's present.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Mrs. Allen fails to do her job when it comes to advising Catherine on etiquette. Enough so, in fact, that Catherine finally complains that she's being left dangerously to her own devices.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of Gothic Romances.
* [[Aluminium Christmas Trees]]: After the 2007 adaptation was broadcast, a letter to the ''[[Radio Times]]'' complained that the scriptwriter had added a jarring reference to baseball. That passage came word for word from the book.
* [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fangirl]]: Gothic romance novel fangirl Catherine gets to spend some weeks in a Gothic abbey.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Catherine's firm belief at the opening of the novel.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The titular abbey.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Deliberately invoked by the [[Narrator]] to ''deliberately narrowly avert'' an [[Ass Pull]]!
* [[Clock King]]: General Tilney.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Catherine has a rather... er... 'odd' interpretation of the nuances of society - or rather an incredibly naive and innocent one: she doesn't think that anyone is capable of outright lying and manipulating other people and situations and could never do such a thing herself. To make matters worse, half the time her mind is with her Gothic Novels and a little departed from reality - with an unhealthy slab of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]. In spite of this, or maybe because of it, she comes up with a ''lot'' of [[Armor-Piercing Question|Armor-Piercing Questions]] that she'll ask A) without realising that they are in fact armor-piercing, and B) without realising that the questionee is extremely uncomfortable. She ends up feeling very confused when the person she's talking to suddenly changes the subject.
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: The Paperback Library printing of this book, egregiously so. They [http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/nhabgoth.jpg mistook it for] [http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/nabgoth2.gif an actual gothic novel] of the sort that it parodies. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]].
* [[Conversational Troping]]: EVERYWHERE!
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The narrator.
* [[Death by Childbirth]]: Since this was a [[Dead Horse Trope]] even in Austen's day, she explicitly points out in the first paragraph that this ''did not'' happen to Mrs. Morland.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: General Tilney refused to let Catherine wed Henry only because {{spoiler|he did not want Henry to marry a poor girl}}. But then, his daughter Eleanor marries a nobleman, making him happy enough to consent to his son's marrying whomever he wants (although it also doesn't hurt when he finds out that Catherine's
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: John Thorpe. The scene where he invites Catherine for a ride in his carriage is actually rather terrifying, especially since he refuses to listen to her insistent pleas to stop and let her get out. It's hard to tell how crazily he's actually driving, since Catherine's sensibilities for such things are probably pretty low, but Henry Tilney is ''much'' more sensible.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]/[[Medium Awareness]]/[[Spoiled by the Format]]: "The anxiety, which ... must be the portion of {{spoiler|Henry and Catherine}} ... can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, [[Lampshade Hanging|who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them]], that we are all hastening together to [[Happily Ever After|perfect felicity]]."
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