Northanger Abbey
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 5/30/2013
EAN 9781107620414, ISBN10: 1107620414
Paperback, 422 pages, 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
One of the first of Jane Austen's novels to be written, and one of the last to be published, Northanger Abbey is both an amusing story of how a naive girl enters society and wins the affection of a witty young clergyman, and a high-spirited parody of the lurid Gothic novels that were popular during Austen's youth. In the process it features a vivid account of social life in late eighteenth-century Bath, and Austen's famous defence of the novel as a literary form. This edition, based on the text of the novel as published posthumously in 1818, is accompanied by explanatory notes and an appendix summarising the plots and situations of the Gothic fictions that form the basis of much of Austen's comedy. In addition there is an extensive critical introduction covering the context, publication and critical history of the novel, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.
General Editor's preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
Note on the text
Northanger Abbey
Appendix
summaries and extracts from Ann Radcliffe's novels
Corrections and emendations to 1818 text
List of abbreviations
Explanatory notes.