Northanger Abbey (Bestsellers of Literature S.)

by JaneAusten (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1968

  $3.81

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.31

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.42

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $30.93

  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.