Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - CN-SG031

Study Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey with confidence.

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland leaves the security of her family home to experience fashionable society in Bath. There she encounters friendship, flirtation, social manipulation and romance — while her enthusiasm for Gothic novels encourages her increasingly active imagination.

Her invitation to stay at Northanger Abbey appears to offer the Gothic adventure she has been waiting for. But Catherine gradually discovers that real life does not follow the conventions of fiction quite as neatly as she expects.

Through Catherine’s experiences, Austen explores reading and imagination, judgement and misjudgement, love and courtship, friendship, money, class and social power. The novel simultaneously parodies Gothic conventions and celebrates the pleasures and possibilities of fiction.

This Coleman’s Notes guide takes students from essential knowledge of the novel through to detailed literary analysis and examination preparation.

What’s included?

✓ Complete plot summary

✓ Detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis

✓ Bath & Northanger reference guide

✓ Character relationship map

✓ Catherine Morland in depth

✓ Henry and Eleanor Tilney

✓ General Tilney

✓ Isabella and John Thorpe

✓ Major themes and character studies

✓ Gothic fiction and Gothic parody

✓ Reading, imagination and judgement

✓ Love, courtship and marriage

✓ Money, rank and social ambition

✓ Female friendship and maturity

✓ Language, irony and narrative method

✓ Historical and literary context

✓ Key quotations and expanded quotation bank

✓ A Level literary methods

✓ Five structured essay plans

✓ Five model answers

✓ 25 Exam & Revision Questions

✓ Quick Recall revision

✓ Fifteen key episodes

✓ Ten critical debates

✓ Exam technique

✓ Final revision checklist

Perfect for

A Level students • examination revision • essay preparation • teachers • tutors • independent learners

This is a digital product, available for download following purchase.

Individual Student Guide: £7.95

Complete your Jane Austen collection

Also available in the Coleman’s Notes® Jane Austen Student Guide series:

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Mansfield Park

Emma

Persuasion

Northanger Abbey

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