Persuasions Number 20

No. 20, 1998

CONTENTS

Message from the President ELSA SOLENDER	7-8
Editor’s Note LAURIE KAPLAN	9-11
JANE AUSTEN AND OTHER WRITERS
Jane Austen, Hannah More, and the Novel of Education JANE NARDIN	15-20
Jane Austen and Rhoda DAVID GILSON	21-30
Unlocking the Rape: An Analysis of Austen’s Use of Pope’s Symbolism in Sense and Sensibility CATHERINE BRISTOW	31-37
A Heroine’s Vision Undermined: Expectations, Disillusionment, and Initiation in Northanger Abbey NICK PICI	38-43
Jane Austen and the Trollopes PAMELA NEVILLE-SINGTON	44-49
MISCELLANY
The Austens and North America 1809-1875 DAVID HOPKINSON	53-60
Contemporary Biography: Some Problems IRENE B. MCDONALD	61-68
Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen & Co., 1801-1816 CLIVE CAPLAN	69-90
AGM 1998 QUEBEC CITY: NORTHANGER ABBEY
Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill, and Aspects of the Gothic Revival STEPHEN CLARKE	92-105
Jane Austen: The French Connection JOAN AUSTEN-LEIGH	106-118
The Case of the Petulant Patriarch KENNETH W. GRAHAM	119-134
The French Bread at Northanger MAGGIE LANE	135-145
Motherhood and Reality in Northanger Abbey ELVIRA CASAL	146-153
The Rev. Henry Tilney, Rector of Woodston IRENE COLLINS	154-164
Parents Against Children: General Tilney as Gothic Monster JOHN A. DUSSINGER	165-174
In the Gothic Theatre PENNY GAY	175-184
Northanger Abbey as Anti-Courtship Novel GEORGE JUSTICE	185-195
From Puppet to Person: The Development of Catherine’s Character in the Bath Chapters of Northanger Abbey SHEILA J. KINDRED	196-206
Clothing the Thought in the Word: The Speakers of Northanger Abbey JULIET MCMASTER	207-221
Consuming Modes in Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Economic View of Literary Nationalism ROBERT JAMES MERRETT	222-235
Northanger Abbey at the Movies BRUCE STOVEL	236-247
Catherine’s Real and Imagined Fears: What Happens to Female Bodies in Gothic Castles ELEANOR TY	248-260
Jane Austen, Works and Studies 1997 BARRY ROTH	261-264
Northanger Abbey Quiz ELAINE BANDER	265-269
Quiz Answers ELAINE BANDER	270

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