Mansfield Park : The Collector's Edition

Name: Mansfield Park : The Collector's Edition
Brand: Jane Austen
SKU: 9781009432665
Price: 15.67 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Jane Austen

Title:

Author:

Jane Austen

Series (if any):

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

480 pages, Worked examples or Exercises

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISBN-13:

9781009432665

EAN:

9781009432665

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

762

Dimensions (mm):

210 x 134 x 25

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£15.67

2 copies in stock

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Description

Many critics regard Mansfield Park as Austen''s supreme achievement. It is a serious, even earnest work, but never dull, finding its comedy less in dialogue than in situation. It has wonderful set pieces including an outing to a grand house, aborted theatricals and a visit to a chaotic ménage. All Austen''s novels are set during the French Wars, but Mansfield Park catches most clearly the anxious mood of a wartime nation unsure of its moral status. The heroine Fanny Price holds to principles against sophisticated laxness, but she is also self-deceiving as her principles jostle against her nature and youth. With the subtle irony that is her forte, Austen shows that integrity wins out but at a cost and that virtue is neither easy nor always pleasurable to achieve. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen''s world to life.