This chapter discusses the difference between Bakhtin's concepts of parody and stylization and indicates the relationship of parodic to other forms of dialogic utterance. It then situates and reads Eaton Stannard Barrett's burlesque, The Heroine, and Jane Austen's posthumously published Northanger Abbey as responses to Udolpho and other Gothic fiction of the 1790s. While there is little doubt for modern readers that Barrett's parodic satire of both novels and female readers tends towards monologism in its desire to suppress alternative ways of speaking and reproduce official norms, Austen's parody of Gothic conventions is dialogic, pluralizing meanings and transforming official norms. Having argued that both Radcliffe and Austen recontextualize aesthetic and other discourses in ways which question and challenge official, patriarchal codes, the chapter summarizes the discursive tensions which the situational analyses of both Udolpho and Northanger bring to light.