Discuss Jane Austen's use of settings in the novel Northanger Abbey, showing how this relates to the social, historical and cultural context.

... Discuss Jane Austen's use of settings in the novel Northanger Abbey, showing how this relates to the social, historical and cultural context. The use of settings in this novel evokes thoughts which make different events happen due to the mood created and the settings described. In this essay I will be looking at Jane Austen's use of settings and how they relate to the social, historical and cultural contexts in this book. Northanger Abbey, written by Jane Austen, is a social drama focusing on the lives of the characters and how changing relationships have an impact on them. This book is probably influenced by the lack of events in Jane Austen's life, causing her to dramatise the smallest things, as does Catherine Morland in this novel. This novel was set and written in the 1790's. We know this because the gothic novel 'The Mysteries of Udolpho', which is frequently mentioned in the

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