The Norton Critical Edition is the most extensively annotated edition for students. The "Background" section includes carefully selected material to enhance readers' appreciation of the novel, including biographical commentary, early works, and correspondence related to Northanger Abbey, as well as excerpts from Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and William Wordsworth, analyzing Austen's connection to the Romantic contemporaries. The "Criticism" section brings together thirteen texts on Northanger Abbey from a variety of voices and periods, including essays by Margaret Oliphant and Rebecca West, as well as critics such as Patricia Meyer Spacks, Claudia L. Johnson, Lee Erickson, and Joseph Litvak. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.