Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park" (Norton Critical Editions)
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park" (Norton Critical Editions)
W.W. Norton & Co. | 1998 | ISBN: 0393967913 | 544 pages | siPDF | 8.1 MB
W.W. Norton & Co. | 1998 | ISBN: 0393967913 | 544 pages | siPDF | 8.1 MB
This Norton Critical Edition of Jane Austen's most ambitious and controversial novel is based on a new authoritative text, which closely follows the one Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816. Supporting materials include an introduction, textual annotations, and a contemporary map of England.
"Contexts" provides readers with a rich selection of contemporary materials on such issues as the slave trade, religion, the conduct of women, and landscape design that illuminate Austen's dark and often disturbing novel. Elizabeth Inchbald's adaptation of Lovers' Vows (the play staged by the characters in Mansfield Park) is included, as are writings by Humphry Repton. Thomas Gisborne, Hannah More, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others.
"Criticism" includes essays on the novel by Jan Fergus, Lionel Trilling, Alistair Duckworth, Nina Auerbach, Claudia L. Johnson, Joseph Litvak, Edward Said, Brian Southam, and Joseph Lew.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsTags: Literature, LiteraryCriticism, 19CEngland
Introduction
Jane Austen and Mansfield Park
A Note on Money in Austen's Novels
A Note on Austen and the Text of Mansfield Park
The Text of Mansfield Park
Textual Notes
Contexts
Elizabeth Inchbald • Lovers' Vows (1798)
Jane Austen
Opinions of Mansfield Park (1814, 1815)
Evening Prayer No. I
A Companion to the Altar
On Family Prayer
Humphrey Repton
Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795)
From Chapter III. Proper Situations for a House
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803)
From Chapter VII. Farm and Park Distinct Objects
William Cowper
The Task (1785)
From Book I. The Sofa
From Book III. The Garden
John Gregory
A Father's Legacy to His Daughter (1774)
From Conduct and Behaviour
From Amusements
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
From Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
From Chapter III. The Same Subject Continued
Thomas Gisborne
An Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain (1794)
From Chapter XI. On the Duties of the Clerical Profession
An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797)
From Chapter IX. On Amusements in General
From Chapter X. On the Employment of Time
Hannah More
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education ( 1799)
From Chapter VI. Filial Obedience Not the Character of the Age
Parliamentary Debates (1806)
From Abolition of the Slave Trade
Thomas Clarkson • From History of the… Abolition of the African Slave Trade… (1808)
Elizabeth Inchbald • Remarks on Shakespeare's King Henry VIII (1806-09)
Criticism
Jan Fergus • Power and Mansfield Park
Lionel Trilling • Mansfield Park
Alistair Duckworth • Mansfield Park: Jane Austen's Grounds of Being
Nina Auerbach • Jane Austen's Dangerous Charm: Feeling as One Ought about Fanny Price
Claudia L. Johnson • Mansfield Park: Confusions of Guilt and Revolutions of Mind
Joseph Litvak • The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park
Edward Said • Jane Austen and Empire
Brian Southam • The Silence of the Bertrams
Joseph Lew • "That Abominable Traffic": Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of Slavery
Jane Austen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
John Sutherland, "Can Jan...zles in Classic Fiction" 2 puzzles on Austen novels
Josephine Ross, "Jane Austen: A Companion"
Janet Todd (ed), "Jane Au...he Works of Jane Austen)"
Sue Birtwistle & Susie Con...g of Pride and Prejudice"
Julia Prewitt Brown, "A R...th-Century English Novel"
Ian Gregor (ed), "Reading...Novel: Detail into Form"
Emma Thompson, "The Sense...e Austen's Novel to Film"
John Sutherland & Deirdre ...zbook (World's Classics)"
Daniel Pool, "What Jane A...neteenth-Century England"
John Sutherland, "Who Bet...ction (World's Classics)" 3 puzzles on Austen novels
Kristine Hughes, "The Wri...cy and Victorian England"