2010 AGM Reading List

Northanger Abbey in JASNA Publications

Read more about Northanger Abbey, the focus of JASNA's 2010 AGM, “Jane Austen and The Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem, and Muslin in Portland.”  The reading list below is a partial sampling of the essays about the novel available on our web site.

Persuasions No. 7 and Persuasions No. 20 include a number of papers about Northanger Abbey. 

Additional reading available online:

• “Of Course You can Trust Me!”:  Jane Austen’s Narrator in Northanger Abbey by Henry N. Rogers III.  Persuasions On-Line 20.1 (Summer 1999).
• Reading by the Book in Northanger Abbey by Barbara Benedict.  Persuasions On-Line 20.1 (Summer 1999).
• “Willy-Nilly” and Other Tales of Male-Tails:  Rightful and Wrongful Laws of Landed Property in Northanger Abbey and Beyond by Deirdre E. Gilbert.  Persuasions On-Line 20.1 (Summer 1999).
• The Invention of Civility in Northanger Abbey by Joseph Wiesenfarth.  Persuasions On-Line 20.1 (Summer 1999).
• “Mapping Northanger Abbey: or, Why Austen’s Bath of 1803 Resembles Joyce’s Dublin of 1904” by Janine Barchas.  The Review of English Studies (2009).