Overview
Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn
heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside
comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close.
introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780199535545
- ISBN-10: 019953554X
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Publish Date: May 2008
- Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.18 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 432
