Description

Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austens earlier works published posthumously in 1818 The novel is a comingofage story that follows the naive and imaginative Catherine Morland during her adventures in Bath and later at the eponymous Northanger Abbey While the book embraces elements of the Gothic novela popular genre of its timeit also satirizes the genres excesses and the naivety of its young heroine Themes of social class wealth and morality are explored against a backdrop of Regency England manners and mores