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  • Jane Austen-Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen-Mansfield Park by Byrne, Sandie;

    Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2004
    • Publisher Red Globe Press
    • Date of Publication 29 October 2004
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781403911384
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages301 pages
    • Size 216x140 mm
    • Weight 363 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    The first novel of the author's maturity, Mansfield Park is complex, highly wrought, and experimental. It marks a transitional stage between the first two published novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Austen's greatest achievements, Emma and Persuasion. It has been suggested that Mansfield Park is the writer's most autobiographical novel and that, in seeing through the eyes of Fanny Price, deemed the most moralising and judgemental of her heroines, we are seeing through the eyes of Austen herself. Though Fanny Price may be too virtuous for modern readers to take to their hearts, in Mrs Norris Austen creates one of her best, because most plausible, monsters; while in the estate of Mansfield Park itself we find some of the most fully realised descriptions of domestic interiors and exteriors in Austen's fiction.

    This Guide traces the response to Mansfield Park from the opinions
    of Jane Austen's contemporaries, through nineteenth-century reviews and twentieth-century critical analyses, including deconstructionist, feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist, to diverse twenty-first-century approaches to the novel. Sandie Byrne selects the most useful and insightful of these responses and puts them in context, providing the reader with an essential and approachable introduction to the range of critical debate on this important novel.

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    Long description:

    The first novel of the author's maturity, Mansfield Park is complex, highly wrought, and experimental. It marks a transitional stage between the first two published novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Austen's greatest achievements, Emma and Persuasion. It has been suggested that Mansfield Park is the writer's most autobiographical novel and that, in seeing through the eyes of Fanny Price, deemed the most moralising and judgemental of her heroines, we are seeing through the eyes of Austen herself. Though Fanny Price may be too virtuous for modern readers to take to their hearts, in Mrs Norris Austen creates one of her best, because most plausible, monsters; while in the estate of Mansfield Park itself we find some of the most fully realised descriptions of domestic interiors and exteriors in Austen's fiction.

    This Guide traces the response to Mansfield Park from the opinions of Jane Austen's contemporaries, through 19th century reviews and 20th century critical analyses, including deconstructionist, feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist, to diverse 21st century approaches to the novel. Sandie Byrne selects the most useful and insightful of these responses and puts them in context, providing the reader with an essential and approachable introduction to the range of critical debate on this important novel.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    The Text of the Novel
    Introduction
    'Have you read Mansfield Park?': Contemporary Opinions of the Novel
    'It has not however that elevation of virtue': Reviews from the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century
    Dear Jane: Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Writing and the Rise of 'Janeism'
    'The first modern novel in England': New Critical and Structuralist Analyses of the Mid-Twentieth Century
    The Anniversary: Criticism of the 1970s and 1980s
    The Improvement of the Estate: Late Twentieth-Century and Early Twenty-First Century Readings
    'Have you seen Mansfield Park?': Adaptations on Film and Television
    Select Bibliography
    Further Reading
    Index.

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