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Northanger Abbey

An Annotated Edition
By Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. On her first visit away from home to Bath with family friends, Catherine's love of gothic novels colours her view of the world around her—from books and conversations to clothes and estates. The novel playfully explores how fiction influences everyday perceptions, set against the vivid backdrop of Bath society in Austen's era.
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Ideal for fans of classic literature and Jane Austen enthusiasts seeking a playful and richly annotated edition. Also suited for readers interested in early 19th-century social life and the interplay between fiction and reality.

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In her introduction to Northanger Abbey—part of Harvard’s celebrated annotated Austen series—Susan Wolfson proposes that Austen’s most underappreciated, most playful novel is about fiction itself and how it can take possession of everyday understandings. Wolfson’s running commentary will engage new readers and delight scholars.

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The star of Northanger Abbey is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels (especially of the gothic variety), encounters a world in which everything beckons as a readable text: not only books, but also conversations and behaviours, clothes, carriages, estates, and vistas.

In her lively introduction to this newest volume in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Susan Wolfson proposes that Austen's most underappreciated, most playful novel is about fiction itself and how it can take possession of everyday understandings.

The first of Austen's major works to be completed (it was revised in 1803 and again in 1816–17), Northanger Abbey was published months after Austen's death in July 1817, together with Persuasion. The 1818 text, whose singularly frustrating course to publication Wolfson recounts, is the basis for this freshly edited and annotated edition.

Wolfson's running commentary will engage new readers while offering delights for scholars and devoted Janeites. A wealth of colour images bring to life Bath society in Austen's era—the parade of female fashions, the carriages running over open roads and through the city's streets, circulating libraries, and nouveau-riche country estates—as well as the larger cultural milieu of Northanger Abbey. This unique edition holds appeal not just for "Friends of Jane" but for all readers looking for a fuller engagement with Austen's extraordinary first novel.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674725676

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 April 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: The Belknap Press

Illustration: 105 color illustrations, 1 map

Contributors:

  • Edited by Susan J. Wolfson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 1306g

Pages: 384

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction

About the Author

Susan J. Wolfson is a leading expert on the poetry of John Keats. Her many books include Reading John Keats, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition, The Annotated Frankenstein, and John Keats (A Longman Cultural Edition). She is Professor of English at Princeton University.

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