Synopses & Reviews
Emma is Austen's most technically accomplished novel. The full implications of its hidden plot are only revealed by a second reading. Presented here for the first time with the spelling and the punctuation of the first edition of 1816, the text allows readers to see the novel as Austen's contemporaries first encountered it. The volume includes comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, and a chronology of Austen's life as well. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.
Review
"Jane Austen deserves, and here gets, the reward of other people's skillful work on her little bit of ivory, two inches wide.... The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to the 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century."
-Jane Austen Society Newsletter
Review
"scrupulous text and copious annotations"
JASNA News
Synopsis
The first fully annotated scholarly edition of the 1816 edition of Emma.
About the Author
Richard Cronin is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow.Dorothy McMillan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow.
Table of Contents
General Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Note on the text; Emma; Corrections and emendations; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes.