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Mansfield Park” continues to complicate the writer’s legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel’s dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.
As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular ...
Mansfield Park is perhaps the first novel in history to depict the life of a little girl from within. Fanny is 10 years old when she is uprooted from her loving but noisy home in Portsmouth, ...
But the truth is, despite this novel’s tendency to be overlooked, Mansfield Park still has a lot to offer. Though Fanny is quiet, she sees a lot of beauty in ordinary things, and that’s ...
Patricia Rozema’s “Mansfield Park” is far more than an exception. The 1999 release is perhaps best known for its extreme disconnect from its source material — the novel of the same name by Jane Austen ...
Mansfield Park is perhaps the first novel in history to depict the life of a little girl from within. Fanny is 10 years old when she is uprooted from her loving but noisy home in Portsmouth, ...
This Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Mansfield Park was simply terrible. Fanny Price’s character in the book is one of humility, virtue and piety, and she is a spiritual and studious girl who ...
“Wide Sargasso Sea,” based on Jean Rhys’ prequel to “Jane Eyre,” daringly explored the dangerous passion of Mr. Rochester and the exotic first wife driven mad by the English colonial.
Patricia Rozema’s “Mansfield Park” is far more than an exception. The 1999 release is perhaps best known for its extreme disconnect from its source material — the novel of the same name by Jane Austen ...