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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10067941715X

ISBN-139780679417156

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038725328

Product Key Features

Book TitleNorthanger Abbey : Introduction by Claudia Johnson

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicClassics, Contemporary Women, Satire, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJane Austen

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-052895

Reviews"It is tempting to argue [that] Austen opted to initiate her career with Northanger Abbey because in addition to being a good novel it alone was also a manifesto of her artistic program . . . Northanger Abbey is a delightful novel, but also a serious one, and the first completely to master the stylistic method that would become the hallmark of its author's art: irony." from the Introduction by Claudia L. Johnson, "It is tempting to argue [that] Austen opted to initiate her career withNorthanger Abbeybecause in addition to being a good novel it alone was also a manifesto of her artistic program . . .Northanger Abbeyis a delightful novel, but also a serious one, and the first completely to master the stylistic method that would become the hallmark of its author's art: irony." from the Introduction by Claudia L. Johnson

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal823/.7

SynopsisNorthanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its na ve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. When she is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor-and a crucial clarification of Catherine's financial status-resolve her problems and win her the approval of Henry's formidable father. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen's death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy., Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. When she is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor-and a crucial clarification of Catherine's financial status-resolve her problems and win her the approval of Henry's formidable father. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen's death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.