In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen rejects and satirizes English Jacobin political Gothicism. In the
unfamiliar setting of Northanger Abbey, Catherine makes many dramatic mistakes in interpretation.
Lacking the worldly experience to chasten and direct her subjective, "natural" sympathies and
imagination, she relies on what she has learned in reading novels and interprets her present world
as if it were a Gothic romance: Catherine sees General Tilney as a tyrant and Northanger Abbey as
a facade for secret horrors. Catherine's suitor and Tilney's son, Henry, recognizes her error and reminds
her of the current social and political reality, his speech asserting a particular view of the present
constitution of Britain and thus of British society. Critic Goldstein found it characteristic of Austen's
disregard of novelistic excess that Henry's perception of Catherine's error does not diminish the value
of her character in his eyes, nor lead him to reject her as a prospective wife—which would be too
indicative of a mere Gothic novel.
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