Taking The Castle of Otranto as your example, outline the main conventi

Taking The stronghold of Otranto as your example, schema the main conventions of the Gothic novel, and show how your knowledge ofTaking The Castle of Otranto as your example, outline the mainconventions of the Gothic novel, and show how your knowledge of theseconventions affects your reading of Northanger Abbey. Is NorthangerAbbey most accurately described as parody of the Gothic genre, or isthere a more complicated relationship going on?Gothic novels advise to revive old stories and beliefs, exploringpersonal, psychical encounters with the taboo (Williams, 2000). Thegenre, as typified by The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole,involves a beautiful innocent young woman who is held cloaked by anolder, powerful, evil man in his large, ancient and gloomy dormitoryfor his own lustful purposes and who escapes, with the aid of wizard(prenominal) manifestations, errors caused by false surmises andconjectures ground on partial narratives (Hoeveler, 1995, p127) and ahandsome young hero . Walpoles novel centers round the tyrant wherethe female writers in the genre, for example, Ann Radcliffe, focusmore on the female victim and what she is thinking and feeling,exploring womens anxieties about their lack of control of theirfeelings, their bodies, and their property, and their require forsomething far more extraordinary and exciting than simply to be adomestic woman. The use of the supernatural by Walpole is so frequentand nonsensical as to excite laughter rather than terror but forRadcliffe and Austen the supernatural is not visible but is aninvisible hand that makes sure that in effect(p) always triumphs and evil isalways punished (Andriopoulos, 1999) .It is necessary to be sure of these Gothic conve... ...omy and the Gothic Novel. ELH 66.3 (1999) 739-59.Austen, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen. Ed. R.W. Chapman. 3rdedition.OxfordOUP, 1933-69Cudden, J.A. Dictionary of literary Terms & Literary Theory. PenguinLondon, 1999.Hoeveler, Diane. Vindicating Northanger Abbey Mary Wollstonecraft,Jane Austen, and Gothic Feminism. Jane Austen and Discourses ofFeminism. Ed. Devony Looser. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, HampshireMacmillan, 1995. 117-35Jerinic, Maria. In Defense of the Gothic Rereading NorthangerAbbey. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism. Ed. Devoney Looser.Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Macmillian, 1995. 137-49Neill, Edward. The Secret of Northanger Abbey. Essays in Criticism47 (1997) 13-32Williams, Anne. The Horror, the Horror Recent Studies in GothicFiction. fresh Fiction Studies 46.3 (2000) 789-99