Northanger Abbey: A Norton Critical Edition

by Jane Austen

Susan Fraiman (Editor)

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 Austen’s 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.

• ISBN10: 0393978508
• ISBN13: 9780393978506
• Publish Date: 11 September 2004 (first published 4 April 1817)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: WW Norton & Co
• Edition: Critical edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[sarahjay]

Every time Jane broke the 4th wall and talked to the reader was my favorite thing. This book is so sarcastic and funny. The ending could have used a little more (i.e. any) dialogue - it sort of felt like Jane was getting sick of writing about them and just summarized the basic events of the ending in a couple of pages. But overall I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very underrated.