| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 外國語文學系 === 84 === In my thesis, I try to explore the potential rage in the novels
Radcliffe and Austen, and to point out, if any, their qualified
These two women novelists expose to their contemporary women
conditions by a kind of artistic strategy. I call this
strategy revolt. In chapter one, "Defamiliarizing/Familiarizing
thefe's Subterranean Revolt in The Mysteries of Udolpho," I
mainly focus specific writing style which makes her
subterranean revolter novels, Radcliffe masks her attacks under
disguises. Shethe readers from the horrors by presenting to
them some remotees and settings, but, she at the same time,
familiarizes theseng them akin to the eighteenth-century women'
s situation. In chapter two, "Domesticating the Gothic:
Subterranean Austen's Northanger Abbey," I discuss the novel's
connection with novels and Austen's strategy of subversion in
Northanger Abbey. still contains some vestiges of Radcliffe.
Apart from The Udolpho, A Sicilian Romance and The Romance of
the Forest both the heroine's imagination. In Northanger
Abbey, Austen uncovers omnipresent adversities underlying the
presumed peacefulness of eighteenth-century England. Moreover,
the novel seems to gothicism underlies the quotidian life, and
that the Gothic instruction to inform girls of the daily
gothic. Domesticating Austen's strategy in Northanger Abbey.
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