Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon

by Austen, Jane; Davie, John; Castle, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780192833686
• ISBN10: 0192833685
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Northanger Abbey depicts 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 heroinesin 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 andliterary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	vii	(26)
NOTE ON THE TEXT	xxxiii	(4)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	xxxvii	(4)
A CHRONOLOGY OF JANE AUSTEN	xli	(2)
Advertisement, by the Authoress, to Northanger Abbey	xliii
NORTHANGER ABBEY
Volume I	1	(99)
Volume II	100	(107)
LADY SUSAN	207	(68)
THE WATSONS	275	(46)
SANDITON	321	(59)
EXPLANATORY NOTES	380