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• W314406741 abstract "Catherine, at any rate, heard enough to feel, that in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty. (Northanger Abbey 247) THE WORKS OF Jane Austen, claimed by readers of every possible background and interest, defy attempts at easy categorization. They transcend what current publishers like to call niche, even as they attempt to create one by piling bookstore tables with Austen-homage literature. It is possible, however, to view Austen's writing through various prisms--feminist, romantic, historical, and the like--and derive fresh insights from each lens. Even writers of the modern mystery genre are eager to claim Jane as one of their own: in the architecture of her stories they discern many of the classic planks of detective fiction. At the core of each of Austen's novels lies a social solecism--a crime--shocking enough to upset the natural order of her characters' bucolic world, a that demands investigation, exposure, and resolution so that peace and order may be restored. Wickham lies, contracts debts, and seduces girls of fifteen; Willoughby abandons both Marianne and his pregnant mistress and marries for money; Frank Churchill commits fraud by forming a secret engagement with one lady while flagrantly pursuing another. In Northanger Abbey, the mercenary General Tilney ruthlessly ejects young Catherine Morland from his home without explanation or concern for her safety. Murder? Hardly. But it is Austen's genius to offer each of her heroines a mystery she must solve--and through its resolution, secure order and happiness in her future life. In this, Austen anticipated the modern detective novel. As W. H. Auden notes, fantasy, then, which the detective story addict indulges is tile fantasy of being restored to the Garden of Eden, to a state of innocence, where he may know as and not as the (24). What does Auden intend to convey by that phrase love as and not as the law? I think he regards the resolution of a detective plot--the restoration of order and peace in a broken community--as being founded upon a spirit of mutual forgiveness; founded, moreover, upon the acknowledgment and acceptance of human frailty within the community itself. The quality of mercy is tested by the destructive force of crime, but once murder is out--once order is restored and the guilty punished--it is rather than the colder justice of law that heals a community's wounds. How then does Auden's vision of the classic detective novel illuminate Northanger Abbey? Auden was an avid mystery reader, and in his effort to explain the genre's appeal, he invoked Aristotle's concept of tragedy as Concealment and Manifestation. That which is hidden must be divined, understood, and exposed by the detective so that conflict is resolved and order is regained. Auden described the essentials of the detective novel in terms immediately familiar to Austen readers: a closed society, preferably one closely-related--3 or 4 Families in a Country Village (9 September 1814); an innocent society in a state of grace, where the commission of the signals that one member of the circle has fallen, and thus precipitates conflict; a society characterized by ritual, which is a sign of harmony between the aesthetic and the ethical. Auden adds that the fallen member uses his knowledge of his society's rituals to commit his and is only exposed and overcome by one who possesses a superior knowledge of that world (18-20). George Wickham, for example, seduces Lydia Bennet in a fashionable watering-place at the height of the summer season's rituals--exactly the same methods and milieu he employed with Georgiana Darcy--and it is Fitzwilliam Darcy's superior knowledge of Wickham's history, methods, vices, and confederates that successfully resolves the crime against Lydia and restores order to the Bennets' world. …" @default.
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• W314406741 title "Suspicious Characters, Red Herrings, and Unreliable Detectives: Elements of Mystery in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey" @default.
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