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Northanger Abbey: Reviews

February 14, 2010 by Vic


Two years ago PBS offered Northanger Abbey during Jane Austen Season. Tonight we are having an encore presentation. Such fun! For information about this series, click on this PBS link.

John Thorpe, Catherine Morland, Isabella Thorpe, and James Morland

For my original review and others, click on the links below!

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  • Catherine Morland’s Friendships

Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland

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  3. on February 15, 2010 at 16:32 Ruchama

    I, too, though not a prude, found the portrayal of a young, single ambitious woman actually having gone to bed with a man extremely jarring. Anyone who knows the least bit about the period knows that even being suspected of having been alone in a closed carriage with a man would ruin such a girl’s reputation and destroy her chances for a good match, probably for any match at all. Married women were often forgiven their dalliances, especially if they were wealthy or titled, but young unmarried virgins. Never!!! Austen is quite clear on this an this double standard forms crucial elements in a number of her plots. Fantasies might be given more leeway.

    I think people who insist on adding explicit, rather than suppressed and repressed sexuality to Austen adaptations miss the major element in the eternal appeal of Regency and Victorian romance. It is precisely the limits, the will they or won’t they end up together that makes them a joy to read. When hopping into bed is scene as no more significant or weighty an issue than a coffee date, the tension that forms the essence of romance, including, or maybe especially romantic comedy, is gone. This is the primary reason why there are so few contemporary romantic comedies. A prime example of the flatness that results is The Devil Wears Prada. Since it’s no big deal to anyone when the young woman has a fling while in Paris, the whole issue becomes quite minor, depriving the story of the tension that would have resulted had any of the three (the woman, her fiance or the other man) viewed the matter as anything other than inconsequential. Almost all of the most famous “screwball” romantic comedies involve a “will she or won’t she?” Right from It Happened One Night to Pillow Talk. Can you imagine any of these being interesting or funny if going to bed happened early on or was seen to have few consequences? Depriving Jane Austen adaptations of the strict sexual mores is like letting champagne become flat before pouring.


  4. on March 10, 2010 at 18:24 sara jane miller

    Is it possible to buy the uncut copy of 2007 verison northanger abbey. if so how and where.


    • on March 10, 2010 at 20:20 Vic

      A BBC video or ITV video will probably be uncut – I would look online to see if any are available in your area


  5. on October 9, 2010 at 13:05 clarebear101

    Someone PLEEEEEEEEASE tell me the name of the painting that’s every page’s header and the artist!


    • on October 9, 2010 at 14:31 Vic

      Hello, The header of this blog is from a photograph supplied by WordPress. I paid someone to insert the regency people, which came from various fashion plates. I hope this is the information you are seeking.


  6. on October 9, 2010 at 14:42 clarebear101

    Darnit! I’ve been searching all over the internet for somewhere I can buy that painting. But thank you!



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