Synopses & Reviews
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 authoritative textual apparatus.
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"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." -- Editionen in der Kritik
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"This first three-volume set in Cambridge's new Austen series includes two of her best titles plus a collection of essays about her work. The novels are fully annotated and include scholarly introductions covering the context and publication history of each novel, plus explanatory notes on the texts. The series eventually will include nine volumes." -- Library Journal
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"Need hard-pressed college libraries spend hundred of dollars on the new Cambridge Jane Austen set? The answer is yes - and the sooner the better." --Choice
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"...certain to be the standard critical edition of all Austen's works." -Times Literary Supplement
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This fully annotated critical edition of Northanger Abbey is based on the text of the novel as published posthumously in 1818. It features an appendix summarising the plots and situations of the Gothic fictions Austen parodied, an extensive critical introduction, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.
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The most authoritative and most fully annotated critical edition available of Austen's first novel.
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A set of all the volumes in the edition, comprising Austen's complete works and a volume of contextual essays.
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This is the first fully annotated scholarly edition of Jane Austen's complete works. Each volume features an extensive introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, full explanatory notes to the text and an authoritative textual apparatus. The Cambridge Austen is the definitive edition for the twenty-first century.
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The first modern, fully annotated edition of the works of Jane Austen is now published complete in nine volumes. Six volumes on the published novels - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - are accompanied by two devoted to Austen's manuscripts, her brilliant juvenile writing, and the unpublished work of her adulthood. Each is edited by leading Austen scholars, and includes comprehensive information on the circumstances of the creation and publication of the work concerned, and its critical reception, together with textual and explanatory notes. To complete the set Jane Austen in Context offers a wide range of essays illuminating Austen's life, work and times. Together these volumes complete the picture - as far as we now have it - of the work of one of the greatest, as well as best-loved, British novelists.
About the Author
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).
Table of Contents
Juvenilia edited by Peter Sabor; Northanger Abbey edited by Barbara Benedict and Deirdre Le Faye; Sense and Sensibility edited by Edward Copeland; Pride and Prejudice edited by John Wiltshire; Emma edited by Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan; Persuasion edited by Janet Todd and Antje Blank; Later manuscripts edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree; Jane Austen in Context edited by Janet Todd.