Jane Austen ; edited by Barbara M. Benedict and Deirdre Le Faye.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
lxiv, 354 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge edition of the works of Jane Austen
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Chronology -- Northanger Abbey -- Corrections and emendations to 1818 text -- Appendix : summaries and extracts from Ann Radcliffe's novels.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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 the 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 summarizing the plots and situations of the gothic fictions that form the basis of much of Austen's comedy. In addition there is an extensive introduction covering the context, publication, and critical history of the novel, a chronology of Austen's life, and authoritative textual apparatus.--Book jacket.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Northanger Abbey.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Morland, Catherine
Morland, Catherine
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Gentry-- England, Fiction.
Horror tales-- Appreciation, Fiction.
Marriage-- Economic aspects, Fiction.
Young women-- England, Fiction.
18.05 English literature.
Gentry.
Horror tales-- Appreciation.
Manners and customs.
Marriage-- Economic aspects.
Young women.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England, Social life and customs, 18th century, Fiction.