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Mansfield Park Jane Austen

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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Mansfield Park is Austen's darkest, and most complex novel. It explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertrams' wealth), the oppressive nature of idealised femininity, and women's education. This edition sheds light on these and other issues through its insightful introduction and wide-ranging appendices of contemporary documents.

Mansfield Park Summary

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park is Austen's darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for her principles and desires. Fanny comes to live at Mansfield Park, the home of the wealthy Bertram family, and of Fanny's aunt, Lady Bertram. Though the family impresses upon Fanny her inferior status, she finds a friend in Edmund, the younger brother.Mansfield Park explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertrams' wealth), the oppressive nature of idealized femininity, and women's education. This edition sheds light on these and other issues through its insightful introduction and wide-ranging appendices of contemporary documents.

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Unlike Jane Austen's earlier novels, Mansfield Park is embedded within a specific historical moment, and the Introduction to this Broadview edition splendidly brings out the novel's engagement with a range of contemporary controversies, from female education to the slave trade and the proper use of wealth. The appendices, too, offer readers a generous range of material, expertly selected and introduced. They extend our insight into what Sturrock shows is Austen's most discomforting-as well as engrossing-text. - John Wiltshire, LaTrobe University, Australia

An excellent edition. Sturrock's introduction provides a nuanced view of Mansfield Park as well as judicious treatment of the critical debates the novel has prompted in recent years. Her annotations are genuinely helpful, and the appendices thought-provoking. With a sharp eye for the most relevant passages, Sturrock has assembled late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writings on issues such as slavery, female education, and private theatricals. These writings create fascinating vantage points from which to view Austen's novel, and they make clear how profound a response it was to contemporary cultural concerns. - Deborah Kaplan, George Mason University

About Jane Austen

June Sturrock teaches at Simon Fraser University. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature, and is the author of 'Heaven and Home': Charlotte M. Yonge's Domestic Fiction and the Victorian Debate Over Women.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jane Austen: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Mansfield Park

Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park

  1. August von Kotzebue, from Lovers' Vows
  2. Austen family correspondence, from The Austen Papers
  3. Erasmus Darwin, from A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools
  4. Thomas Gisborne, from On Amusements in General

Appendix B: Religion

  1. Jane Austen's prayers, from The Works of Jane Austen
  2. Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
  3. William Wilberforce, from A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians
  4. Dr. John Gregory, from Religion

Appendix C: Ideals of Femininity

  1. Henry Austen, from Biographical Notice of Jane Austen
  2. Thomas Gisborne, from On the Importance of the Female Character
  3. Dr. John Gregory, from Conduct and Behaviour
  4. Hannah More, from The Benefits of Restraint

Appendix D: The Improvement of the Estate

  1. William Cowper, from The Garden
  2. Humphry Repton, from Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

Appendix E: The West Indian Connection

  1. A Permanent and Effectual Remedy Suggested for the Evils Under Which the British West Indies Now Labour
  2. Joseph Lowe, from An Inquiry into the State of the British West Indies
  3. Excerpt from Frank Austen's notebook 1808, from Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers
  4. Thomas Clarkson, from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the AfricanSlave-Trade
  5. Hannah More, The Sorrows of Yamba or the Negro Woman's Lamentation

Appendix F: Women's Education

  1. Thomas Gisborne, from On Female Education
  2. Thomas Gisborne, from On Parental Duties
  3. Hannah More, from Comparison of the Mode of Female Education in the Last Age With That of the Present Age
  4. Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, from Prudence and Economy
  5. Mary Wollstonecraft, from Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Appendix G: Contemporary Reception of Mansfield Park

  1. Richard Whateley, from Quarterly Review, January 1821
  2. Excerpt from Opinions of Mansfield Park: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen
  3. Excerpt from Opinions of Emma: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen

Appendix H: Jane Austen's Letters and Mansfield Park

  1. Letter from JA to Cassandra Austen. January 1813
  2. Letter from JA to Francis Austen. July 1813
  3. Letter from JA to Francis Austen. September 1813

Works Cited and Recommended Reading

Additional information

GOR004975898
9781551110981
1551110989
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Broadview Editions
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
20010430
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