Northanger Abbey - The Collector''s Edition

Austen's ingenious Gothic parody illuminates the material and social conditions of genteel English society in the late eighteenth century. Through its naive young heroine, we delight in escapist fiction while learning its limitations. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

List of contents

Preface; Northanger Abbey; General Notes.

About the author

Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2021). Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.

Summary

Austen's ingenious Gothic parody illuminates the material and social conditions of genteel English society in the late eighteenth century. Through its naive young heroine, we delight in escapist fiction while learning its limitations. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

Foreword

Northanger Abbey, Austen's ingenious Gothic parody, is simultaneously a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Assisted by: Janet Todd (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009432429
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943242-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary