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Jane Austen’s Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood
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.
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Jane Austen lives on
As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular ...
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Moral philosophy and the novel: The struggle between good and evil in Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park” and Iris Murdoch’s “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”
Mansfield Park is a great novel, and its greatness is absolutely inseparable from the qualities of Fanny. Lionel Trilling famously wrote that the novel’s greatness is “commensurate with its ...
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Novel Approaches: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband.But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...
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Close Readings: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...
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Mansfield Park at the Watermill – review - WhatsOnStage
Mansfield Park at the Watermill – review. A mould-breaking, eye-opening drama with music, ... reimagining of Jane Austen’s third published novel than this production co-directed by Arne Pohlmeier and ...