The establishment of a new kind of heroine in Northanger Abbey

My second paper, written on Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

"By writing in opposition to the Gothic style, Austen is doing something interesting and different: she is creating a romance of reality. Her heroine is not perfect like Adeline, the heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, and her adventures are not as dramatic and fantastic. For these reasons, the story becomes one the reader can enter into without a suspension of reality; the reader can identify with the heroine and her life in the most accepting manner."