Northanger Abbey
This week the girls talk muslin, men and murder when they get stuck into Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's another one that Saoirse thought would be too thin on the ground to fill up a whole show, and yet again, how wrong she was.
Topics covered include:
-Katie's best dramatic reading to date (we still haven't recovered)
-The discovery that Dublin's cheesiest, and yet most popular nightclub existed in 1800's Bath
-Satire vs Spoof and how in the hell Jane Austen managed to nail both genres in the 19th century
-Henry Tilney being the absolute hugest ride we've seen in a book written before 1990
Also, an update on Chloe's extreme balliage experiment and an insight into Katie's egocentric side (she thinks she's Quentin Tarantino or something)
The Prince Regent got nothin' on our girls, is what we're sayin'
More on Northanger Abbey:
Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen's novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her. How Catherine views the world has been distorted by her fondness for Gothic novels and an active imagination.
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