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Beschreibung
'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.'

Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen's youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulation. The absurdities of fashion and conspicuous consumption, voguish ostentation and social competition are seen first in shark-infested Bath, (the premier health resort and marriage market of the day) and then in a more tranquil pocket of rural Gloucestershire that turns out to be a hotbed of materialism and greed. Jane Austen combines making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel with larger moral issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, and the inexcusability (especially for women) of not thinking for oneself.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.'

Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen's youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulation. The absurdities of fashion and conspicuous consumption, voguish ostentation and social competition are seen first in shark-infested Bath, (the premier health resort and marriage market of the day) and then in a more tranquil pocket of rural Gloucestershire that turns out to be a hotbed of materialism and greed. Jane Austen combines making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel with larger moral issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, and the inexcusability (especially for women) of not thinking for oneself.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Über den Autor
Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he has also served as Director of Book History & Print Culture and Chair of the Department of English. He was previously Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, where he remains a Supernumerary Fellow. His books include Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics (2020), Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 (2019), and, as editor, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume One: Prose Fiction from the Origins of Print to 1750 (2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Note on the Text

  • Select Bibliography

  • A Chronology of Jane Austen

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY

  • Advertisement, by the authoress, to Northanger Abbey

  • Volume I

  • Volume II

  • Explanatory Notes

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN-13: 9780198841067
ISBN-10: 019884106X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Austen, Jane
Redaktion: Keymer, Thomas
Auflage: 2nd edition
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 193 x 125 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Jane Austen
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,204 kg
Artikel-ID: 128712181

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