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
behaviors, 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
color 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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