Emma is Austen's most technically accomplished novel, with a hidden plot, the full implications of which are only revealed by a second reading. It is here presented for the first time with a full scholarly apparatus. The text retains the spelling and the punctuation of the first edition of 1816, allowing readers to see the novel as Austen's contemporaries first encountered it. This volume, first published in 2005, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.

This volume, first published in 2005, is a fully annotated scholarly edition of the 1816 edition of Emma.

About the Author
Richard Cronin is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Dorothy McMillan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews
"Jane Austen deserves, and here gets, the reward of other people's skillful work on her little bit of ivory, two inches wide.... The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to the 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century." -Jane Austen Society Newsletter
"scrupulous text and copious annotations" JASNA News



Book Information
ISBN 9781107620469
Author Jane Austen
Format Paperback
Page Count 682
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 850g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 38mm