چکیده

Despite negative comments of scholars at the time, gothic fiction went high in stature during 1790s following the publication of novels by Horace Walpole and Anne Radcliffe as predecessors of the genre. This genre has been subject to many critical studies with various perspectives through decades. Although numerous lenses have been explored and examined on gothic novels, Jane Austen s parody of gothic Northanger Abbey (1818) has not been explored through a psychological perspective. This paper aims to offer a fresh reading of the novel deploying the concept of abject in line with the gothic element of terror represented in the novel s protagonist Catherine Morland. It is argued that the heroine s curiosity as an object of terror is abjected through different stages of the novel and is reflected by the protagonist as an abject. Catherine sets out on a journey in order to attain symbolic subjectivity but as the story proceeds she finds her acts of curiosity threatening it and shows reluctance toward her own curiosity.

کليدواژه ها

terror, abject, curiosity, Catherine Morland, symbolic subjectivity

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Sara Parsafar , 1398 , Representation of Abject in Jane Austen s Northanger Abbey , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي