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Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
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- Book Synopsis
- It has been fiercely argued over for more than 200 years, and with good reason: it is open to radically different interpretations. At its broadest, it is a novel about the condition of England, setting up an opposition, as the Austen biographer Claire Tomalin has put it, between someone with strongly held religious and moral principles who will not consider a marriage that is not based on true feeling, and is revolted by sexual immorality. Many have dismissed the heroine, Fanny Price, as a mere picture of goodness, but John Wiltshire dismisses this argument. The argument that it is a straightforward defence of the conservative way of life is hard to sustain; it is more plausibly seen as questioning the whole patriarchal basis of society, and in particular the extent to which women were trapped by a system over which they had no control.
- About The Author
- John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL, and has for many years been a visiting professor at the Californian Institute of Technology. Jolyon Connell is the founder and editorial director of The Week and Money Week.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781907776304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Connell Publishing, (01 February 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 122
- Weight
- 145 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 175 x 109 x 10 mm
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