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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen | Claire Grogan

Northanger Abbey

Broadview Press (Apr 29, 2002)
9781551114798
284 pages | 150 x 220 mm
Dewey 823/.7
LC Classification PR4034 .N7 2002

Subject

  • Books And Reading
  • England
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fiction / Romance / Gothic
  • Young Women

Plot

First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and comedy around the heroine Catherine Morland”s first foray into society. The style of the novel is a unique hybrid; along the way Austen parodies the eighteenth-century novel of manners, the Gothic novel, and even the educational treatises of the time. The second Broadview edition includes a revised introduction, notes, bibliography, and expanded appendices of background contextual materials.