Who's going to be triggered by Northanger Abbey? It's hardly Game of Thrones | Catherine Bennett
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Spoilers but does it matter?Now Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is identified by a British university as a vehicle for potentially disturbing gender stereotypes and toxic relationships and friendships, perhaps the safest way to approach the satire is, if at all, second hand.The University of Greenwich's trigger warning (TW) is for undergraduates, but since the original intention of such alerts was to prepare readers for some possible reminder of upsetting experiences, it's older ones who should be most grateful for this vigilance.
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