Northanger Abbey : backgrounds, criticism / Jane Austen ; edited by Susan Fraiman.

Author: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c2004.

Descriptionxiv, 364 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Criticism. - The customs and manners of common-place people / British critic. - Hardly exceeded by Shakespeare / Richard Whatley. - Small vanities and small falsehoods / Julia Kavanagh. - Exquisite derision / Margaret Oliphant. - The feminism of jane Austen / Rebecca West.

Note:Modern views. - Regulated sympathy in Northanger Abbey / A. Walton Litz. - Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's juvenilia / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. - General Tilney and Affairs of State: The political gothic of Northanger Abbey / Robert Hopkins. - Muted discord: Generational conflict in Jane Austen / Patricia Meyer Spacks. - The juvenilia and Northanger Abbey: the authority of men and books / Claudia L. Johnson. - The economy of novel reading: Jane Austen and the circulating library / Lee Erikson. - Free indirect speech and Jane Austen's 1816 revision of Northanger Abbey / Narelle Shaw. - The most charming young man in the world / Joseph Litvak.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-364).

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