There were no reviews of "Mansfield Park" when it first appeared
in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it
was only in the twentieth century that formal and sustained
criticism began of this work, which addresses the controversies of
its time more than Austen's earlier novels did. Lionel Trilling
praised "Mansfield Park" for exploring the difficult moral life of
modernity; Edward Said brought postcolonial theory to the study of
the novel; and twenty-first-century critics scrutinize these and
other approaches to build on and go beyond them.
This volume is the third in the MLA Approaches series to deal
with Austen's work ("Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma" were the
subject of the first and second volumes on Austen, respectively).
It provides information about editions, film adaptations, and
digital resources, and then nineteen essays discuss various aspects
of "Mansfield Park," including the slave trade, the theme of
reading, elements of tragedy, gift theory, landscape design, moral
improvement in the spirit of Samuel Johnson and of the Reformation,
sibling relations, card playing, and interpretations of Fanny
Price, the heroine, not as passive but as having some control.
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