Northanger Abbey - Second Edition (Broadview Editions)

First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and comedy around the heroine Catherine Morland”s first foray into society. The style of the novel is a unique hybrid; along the way Austen parodies the eighteenth-century novel of manners, the Gothic novel, and even the educational treatises of the time.

The second Broadview edition includes a revised introduction, notes, bibliography, and expanded appendices of background contextual materials.

Claire Grogan is Professor of English at Bishop’s University. She is the editor of the Broadview Editions of Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man and Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers.