Product Overview
Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austens youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel.
This Norton Critical Edition is the most extensively annotated student edition available.Backgrounds features material carefully chosen to enhance readers appreciation of the novel, including biographical commentary, early works and correspondence related to Northanger Abbey, and excerpts by Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and William Wordsworth, among others, tracing Austens connection to her Romantic contemporaries.
Criticism collects thirteen assessments of Northanger Abbey from a wide range of voices and periods, including essays by Margaret Oliphant and Rebecca West and critics Patricia Meyer Spacks, Claudia L. Johnson, Lee Erickson, and Joseph Litvak.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
