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    The document discusses how Jane Austen uses objects in Northanger Abbey to define character and spaces. It analyzes two large chests and an old-fashioned black cabinet that Catherine encounters, noting how her interactions with these objects reflect her imagination and changing perceptions throughout the story. The objects relate to the thesis about using object theory to understand literature.

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    The document discusses how Jane Austen uses objects in Northanger Abbey to define character and spaces. It analyzes two large chests and an old-fashioned black cabinet that Catherine encounters, noting how her interactions with these objects reflect her imagination and changing perceptions throughout the story. The objects relate to the thesis about using object theory to understand literature.

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    Object usage in Northanger

    Abbey
    Jane Austen Then and Now
    María Fernanda Chavez
    Carolina Deantas
    Object Theory
    • Way that objects relate to literature
    • Different characters have different objects
    • Objects can define spaces
    thesis
    • When her eye suddenly fell on a
    • And she often looked at a large
    large high chest, standing back and heavy chest that stood in
    in a deep recess on one side of the chamber, with wishes that
    the fireplace […]it was of cedar, she and Annette had strenght to
    curiously inlaid with some move it[…] She tried to life the
    darkerwood, and raised, about a lid; but this was held by a lock,
    foot from the ground, on a for which seh had no key, and
    carved stand of the same. The which, indeed, appeared from itr
    lock was silver, though tarnished peculiar construction to open
    with a string
    from age.
    Page 310
    Page 185
    • [Catherine] was struck by the
    appearance of a high, old-
    fashioned black cabinet, which,
    though in a situation
    conspicuous enough, had never
    caught her notice before

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