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Northanger Abbey
The Collector's Edition
Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published until after Jane Austen's death, the novel straddles the style of her childhood writings,...
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See moreAusten'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.
Northanger Abbey, Austen's ingenious Gothic parody, is simultaneously a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl.
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Description
Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published until after Jane Austen's death, the novel straddles the style of her childhood writings, with their playful mockery of contemporary fiction, and the later mature works which probe both society and individual psychology.
It paints a wonderfully dense picture of the material and social conditions of genteel English life in town and country. Through the young, naïve heroine, the reader experiences the popular delight in escapist and sensational fiction typical of the period. The novel invites us to enjoy being laughed at for our own fictional expectations, while happily fulfilling most of them.
Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.
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ISBN: 9781009432429
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 May 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
Contributors:
- Edited by Janet Todd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 256
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.
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