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Mansfield Park Authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Jane Austen, 1775-1817

Book - 1998

Presents the text of Jane Austen's novel about Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family who possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love, and includes a selection of contemporary materials on issues addressed in the story, and critical essays.

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Series
Norton critical edition.
Subjects
Price, Fanny > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817. > Mansfield Park.
Young women > Fiction.
Children of the rich > Fiction.
Country homes > Fiction.
Adoptees > Fiction.
Cousins > Fiction.
Uncles > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Genres
Romance fiction
Published
New York : W.W. Norton ©1998.
Edition
1st ed
Language
English
Physical Description
xxi, 515 pages : 1 map ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-515).
ISBN
9780393967913
Main Author
Jane Austen, 1775-1817 (-)
Other Authors
Claudia L. Johnson (-)
  • Introduction:
  • Jane Austen and Mansfield Park
  • A note on money in Austen's novels
  • A note on Austen and the text of Mansfield Park.
  • The text of Mansfield Park
  • Map of England
  • Contexts:
  • Lovers' vows
  • (1798) / Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Opinions of Mansfield Park
  • (1814, 1815) ; Evening prayer No. I ;
  • A companion to the altar ;
  • On family prayer /
  • Jane Austen
  • Sketches and hints on landscape gardening
  • (1795) ;
  • selection from chapter III,
  • Proper situations for a house,
  • Observations on the theory of practice of landscape gardening
  • (1803)
  • selection from chapter VII,
  • Farm and park distinct objects /
  • Humphrey Repton
  • Selection from
  • The task
  • (1785):
  • The sofa ;
  • The garden /
  • William Cowper
  • A father's legacy to his daughter
  • (1774) ;
  • selection from
  • Conduct and behavior ;
  • selection from
  • Amusements /
  • John Gregory
  • selections from
  • A vindication of the rights of woman
  • (1792):
  • The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
  • The same subject continued /
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • selection from
  • An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain
  • (1794):
  • On the duties of the clerical profession ;
  • selection from
  • An Enquiry into the duties of the female sex
  • (1797):
  • On amusements in general ;
  • On the employment of time /
  • Thomas Gisborne
  • selection from
  • Strictures on the modern system of female education
  • (1799):
  • Filial obedience not the character of the age /
  • Hannah More
  • selection from
  • Abolition of the slave trade:
  • Parliamentary debates
  • (1806)
  • selection from
  • History of the ..., Abolition of the African slave trade ...
  • (1808) /
  • Thomas Clarkson
  • Remarks on Shakespeare's King Henry VIII 1806-09 /
  • Elizabeth Inchbald.
  • Criticism:
  • Power and Mansfield Park / Jan Fergus
  • Mansfield Park / Lionel Trilling
  • Mansfield Park: Jane Austen's grounds of being / Alistair Duckworth
  • Jane Austen's dangerous charm: feeling as one ought about Fanny Price / Nina Auerback
  • Mansfield Park: confusions of guilt and revolutions onf mind / Claudia L. Johnson
  • The infection of acting: theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park / Joseph Litvak
  • Jane Austen and empire / Edward Said
  • The silence of the Bertrams / Brian Southam
  • That abominable traffic: Mansfield Park and the dynamics of slavery.
  • Jane Austen : a chronology
  • Selected bibliography.

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