Northanger Abbey
The Northanger Abbey (English: Northanger Abbey) is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen . It was written between 1798 and 1803, and published in December 1817. It's a satire on horror novels that were very popular in Jane Austen's time. It is also a novel of development and, like all of Jane Austen's novels, a love story.
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Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, daughter of a pastor with “considerable wealth”, lives with her parents and nine siblings in a small village. The author repeatedly explains that Catherine is unsuitable for a novel heroine for various compelling reasons. Catherine was a tomboy when she was a child, but is now more interested in horror novels and especially raves about Anne Radcliffe's novel Udolpho's Secrets .
Catherine is invited to travel to the fashionable spa town of Bath with Mrs. Allen, a friend of the family . In the beginning she likes it only moderately because neither she nor Mrs. Allen know anyone. But at a ball she met Henry Tilney, an amusing young clergyman of 26, with whom she had lively conversations. Soon after, Catherine lives only to meet him again, unaware that he has left Bath for a week. In the common room, where Catherine looks for Henry, she meets Isabelle Thorpe, whose mother went to school with Mrs. Allen. A close friendship develops between them, which is among other things favored by the fact that Isabelle's brother John is friends with Catherine's brother James. John is very interested in Catherine, but she dislikes his boastful demeanor. James Morland and Isabella Thorpe, on the other hand, seem to have a deep passion and they become engaged. Catherine meets Henry at a ball and gets to know his sister Eleanor. The two girls soon become friends.
After her brother's departure, Catherine is concerned when she notices that Isabella is flirting with Frederick, Henry's older brother. However, she cannot influence the further course of events, as she is invited to the family seat of Northanger Abbey by Eleanor and her father, General Tilney, and is completely filled with anticipation for life in the old, haunted abbey. Catherine's happy days in Northanger and the love between her and Henry deepens. This time is disturbed by the news that Isabella has separated from James and engaged to Frederick. Some time afterwards Catherine has to leave Northanger; she is thrown out very suddenly and without explanation by the general, although up to now he has not seemed averse to a marriage between Catherine and Henry.
A few days after Catherine's return to her parents, this incident turns out to be an intrigue. Henry followed Catherine to speak to her. During a walk they confess their love and get engaged. Henry can also clear up his father's strange behavior. John Thorpe had lied to Henry's father about the Morland family's fortune: when he was still interested in Catherine, he described the family as rich and later, after being rejected, as poor as a beggar. The general thought Catherine had been wrong. Soothed by Eleanor's marriage to a Viscount , he eventually approves Catherine and Henry's marriage.
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- Original editions
- Northanger Abbey . John Murray, London 1818 (first edition).
- Northanger Abbey and Persuasion . Collection of British Authors, Vol. 1176, Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1871.
- Northanger Abbey . A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Susan Fraiman. Oxford 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-97850-6
- Northanger Abbey . Edited by Marilyn Butler . Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-14-143979-2
- German translations
- Northanger Abbey . Transferred to English by Margarete Rauchberger, Schaffrath Verlag, Cologne 1948.
- Northanger Abbey . Translated by Christiane Agricola. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung Leipzig 1980.
- Northanger Monastery . Translated by Ursula and Christian Grawe , Nachw. U. Note by Christian Grawe, Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 978-3-15-027728-7
- Northanger Abbey . Ill. By Hugh Thomson . Translated by Margarete Rauchberger, Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1986, ISBN 978-3-458-32631-1
- Northanger Abbey . Novel. Translated by Andrea Ott , Nachw. By Hans Pleschinski, Manesse Library of World Literature , Manesse Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7175-2092-4
- Northanger Abbey . Translated by Sabine Roth, with an afterward by Dorothea Tetzeli von Rosador, dtv, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-423-14164-2 .
- Audio book
- Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey . Unabridged reading, from the English by Ursula and Christian Grawe, directed by Vera Teichmann, read by Eva Mattes , Argon-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8398-1213-6 .
- Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey . Abridged reading, translated from English by Andrea Ott , read by Fritzi Haberlandt , Random House Audio, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8371-3932-7 .
Film adaptations
Adaptations
- Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey . Graphic novel by Nancy Butler (text), Janet K. Lee, Nick Filardi (drawing), 5 vol., Marvel Comics, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0785164401 .
- Val McDermid : Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey . Harper Collins, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-9596-7018-0 .
