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Circulating Jane.(Miscellany)(Jane Austen and modern experienc)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20030101
Author:Francus, Marilyn

FOR JANE AUSTEN, the distinctions between fiction and lived experience were discrete and definable. Whenever characters in her novels attempt to cross the barrier between their "reality" and fiction, disaster results, as Catherine Morland discovers while imagining herself in a Radcliffean gothic romance at Northanger Abbey, and as the Bertram family party learns while acting out Lovers' Vows onstage and off at Mansfield Park. Inevitably there is a moment of recall, as characters are forced to desist from their fantasy of enacting another's fiction in order to live their own lives ...

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