By Alicia Ortiz Alba
This week’s creative features Maddie Geary’s statement for her Colloquium thesis, Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Anticipation of Modern Critical Theory. We hope you enjoy it!
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Anticipation of Modern Critical Theory
Austen elevates the genre of novel writing in the Regency Era by engaging with modern day reader-response and psychoanalytic critical theory. Her dedication to understanding a reader’s role in the comprehension of a text illustrates the complexity required to write a novel that many critics overlooked at this period in history.