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Northanger Abbey (Norton Critical Edition)

by Jane Austen

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Staff Pick

Now this is one Austen novel that is too often forgotten. Our heroine, Catherine Morland, might be naïve, but she is no dummy. Catherine is more complex than scholars give her credit for. I admit, she can create ridiculous fantasies that get her into trouble, but her inner core of right and wrong, her own moral compass, never leads her astray. She can be remarkably determined and forthright. And it's refreshing to meet an Austen heroine who is so shamelessly straightforward in her interest for the man of her choice! This is Austen at her most hysterically funny. Northanger Abbey is an easy link between Shakespeare's comedies and Monty Python skits.
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Synopsis:

Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austen's youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel. This Norton Critical Edition is the most extensively annotated student edition available. Backgrounds features material carefully chosen to enhance readers' appreciation of the novel, including biographical commentary, early works and correspondence related to Northanger Abbey, and excerpts by Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and William Wordsworth, among others, tracing Austen's connection to her Romantic contemporaries. Criticism collects thirteen assessments of Northanger Abbey from a wide range of voices and periods, including essays by Margaret Oliphant and Rebecca West and critics Patricia Meyer Spacks, Claudia L. Johnson, Lee Erickson, and Joseph Litvak. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393978506
Editor:
Fraiman, Susan
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Editor:
Fraiman, Susan
Author:
Austen, Jane
Subject:
Women Authors
Subject:
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Series:
Norton Critical Edition
Publication Date:
October 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
8.38x5.13x.80 in. .80 lbs.
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