Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jane Austen ,
Barbara M. Benedict (Trinity College, Connecticut) ,
Deirdre Le Faye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.530kg
ISBN: 9781107620414
ISBN 10: 1107620414
Pages: 422
Publication Date: 30 May 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Benedict and Le Faye ... provide in their respective volumes a generous, helpful, and historically informed introduction to the work and its reception; a set of informative, judicious explanatory notes; and a meticulously prepared and visually well presented text. ... The Northanger Abbey edition is excellent ... offers a magnificent summary ...' Devoney Looser, University of Missouri
'Benedict and Le Faye ... provide in their respective volumes a generous, helpful, and historically informed introduction to the work and its reception; a set of informative, judicious explanatory notes; and a meticulously prepared and visually well presented text. ... The Northanger Abbey edition is excellent ... offers a magnificent summary ...' Devoney Looser, University of Missouri The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen performs an admirable service for readers--and particularly scholars - of Austen. It is a service that will no doubt last for generations to come. -Devoney Looser, University of Missouri, Editionen in der Kritik
Author Information
Barbara M. Benedict is Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Deirdre Le Faye is the editor of Jane Austen's letters and of A Family Record. She is the author of A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family (Cambridge, 2006).
