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

Taking The Castle of Otranto as your example, outline the main conventions of the knightly novel, and show how your knowledge ofTaking The Castle of Otranto as your example, outline the mainconventions of the black letter 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 race going on?Gothic novels purport 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 simple young woman who is held captive by anolder, powerful, evil man in his large, ancient and gloomy residencefor his own lustful purposes and who escapes, with the aid ofsupernatural manifestations, errors caused by false surmises andconjectures based on partial narratives (Hoeveler, 1995, p127) and ahandsome young hero. Walpoles novel centers around 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 desire forsomething far more extraordinary and exciting than simply to be adomestic woman. The use of the supernatural by Walpole is so frequentand monstrous as to excite laughter rather than terror but forRadcliffe and Austen the supernatural is not visible but is aninvisible hand that makes sure that good always triumphs and evil isalways punished (Andriopoulos, 1999) .It is necessary to be aware 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 standoff, the Horror Recent Studies in GothicFiction. Modern Fiction Studies 46.3 (2000) 789-99