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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen ; edited by Barbara M. Benedict and Deirdre Le Faye

(The Cambridge edition of the works of Jane Austen)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Note

Includes bibliographical references

Chronology: p. xv-xxi

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA78814896
  • ISBN
    • 9780521824194
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    lxiv, 354 p., [1] leaf of plates
  • Size
    23 cm
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