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Northanger Abbey ; Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon / Jane Austen ; edited by James Kinsley and John Davie ; with a new introduction and notes by Claudia L. Johnson.
LIBRA PR4032 .K56 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Open University set book
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Novels. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- l, 379 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- '...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.
- Contents:
- Northanger Abbey
- Advertisement, by the authoress, to Northanger Abbey 3
- Lady Susan 189
- The Watsons 251
- Sanditon 293
- Appendix A Rank and Social Class 347
- Appendix B Dancing 352.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0192840827
- OCLC:
- 52485865
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