Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen''s earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited Gothic parody while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen canon. The two texts have been widely analysed and debated since publication and continue to be so today this Readers'' Guide Enit Karafili Steiner:- Delineates a clear trajectory through the books'' many interpretations over two centuries mapping these out thematically and chronologically.- Contextualises and brings into dialogue influential approaches such as psychoanalytical criticism structuralism deconstruction Marxism New Historicism and feminism.- Discusses film adaptations of the novels and their relation to literary criticism.