Northanger Abbey 2e Owc

- Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels

- Provides a wide-ranging and authoritative introduction that gives a comprehensive overview of the text, from the history of composition and publication; the development of Austen's literary techniques and her satire on the novel genre; and the relationship of the work to cultural, social, and political contexts

- New up-to-date critical apparatus and notes by Thomas Keymer to reflect the latest scholarship