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Mansfield Park

An Annotated Edition
By Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen explores the complex life of Fanny Price, a young woman navigating the expectations and controversies of her aristocratic relatives. The novel examines themes of duty, morality, and social status, set against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, with nuanced insights into issues such as West Indian slavery and Britain's war with France.
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This edition, with detailed annotations and historical context, suits both devoted Austen enthusiasts and new readers looking to delve deeper into the complexities of the novel.

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In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard’s annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen’s design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire.

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Jane Austen's most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances' mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled Opinions of Mansfield Park.

Is this novel's dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen's own mother asserted) "insipid"? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary Crawford? Does Fanny's uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, act as her benefactor, or as a domestic tyrant?

In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen's design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire.

Lynch also engages head-on with the novel's experimentalism, its technical virtuosity, and its undiminished capacity, two centuries later, to disturb and to move. Annotations clarify the nuances of Austen's language and explain the novel's literary allusions and its engagements with topical controversies over West Indian slavery and the conduct of Britain's war against France. The volume's numerous illustrations enable readers to picture the world Mansfield Park's characters inhabit, underscoring the novel's close attention to setting and setting's impact on character.

Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition opens up facets of the novel for even devoted Janeites while extending an open hand to less experienced readers. It will be a welcome addition to the shelf of any library.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674058101

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: The Belknap Press

Edition: Annotated edition

Illustration: 1 Maps

Contributors:

  • Edited by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 1633g

Pages: 544

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction

About the Author

Deidre Shauna Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Harvard University.

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