All quotations from Mansfield Park are from this edition subsequent page references appear in the text. Ian Watt (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963), pp. 6745 (4 October 1957), 339–40 quoted here from Jane Austen: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Kingsley Amis, “What Became of Jane Austen? ,” originally published in the Spectator, no. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The book is supposed somehow to be “different” - not at all, really, Jane Austen’s sort of thing, and thus requiring a good deal of explanation.
1 Commentators complacently discuss the expulsion of wit and scourging of irony in Mansfield Park, pronounce Fanny Price a failure, and conclude that the novel as a whole must be one too. Misreadings of the book by otherwise sensible men and women are legion: Mansfield Park “continually and essentially holds up the vicious as admirable,” says Kingsley Amis. For years critics have exercised themselves trying to explain, justify, expound, or attack its moral slant. This helps make it her most unpleasant novel - and her most controversial. Almost everyone in it is selfish: self-absorbed, self-indulgent, and vain. (Summary by Karen Savage with text from Mansfield Park)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit Park is Jane Austen’s Vanity Fair. It is Fanny's story we follow in Mansfield Park.
Sir Thomas provides assistance in helping his nephews into lines of work suitable to their education, and takes his eldest niece, Fanny Price, then ten years old, into his home to raise with his own children. Price appeals to her family, namely to her eldest sister and her husband, Sir Thomas Bertram, for help with her over-large family. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice." Some years later, pregnant with her ninth child, Mrs. Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. LibriVox recording of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.
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