Mansfield Park

Resumen del libro

Jane Austens most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled 'Opinions of Mansfield Park.' Is this novels dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austens own mother asserted) 'insipid'? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary Crawford? Does Fannys uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, act as her benefactor, or as a domestic tyrant? In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvards celebrated annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austens design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire.

Lynch also engages head-on with the novels experimentalism, its technical virtuosity, and its undiminished capacity, two centuries later, to disturb and to move. Annotations clarify the nuances of Austens language and explain the novels literary allusions and its engagements with topical controversies over West Indian slavery and the conduct of Britains war against France. The volumes numerous illustrations enable readers to picture the world Mansfield Parks characters inhabit, underscoring the novels close attention to setting and settings impact on character.

Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition opens up facets of the novel for even devoted Janeites while extending an open hand to less experienced readers. It will be a welcome addition to the shelf of any library.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P Jane Austen nació en la rectoría de Steventon, al noreste de Hampshire, el 16 de diciembre de 1775. Séptima hija del reverendo George Austen y de Cassandra Leigh, Jane Austen fue una destacada novelista británica que, gracias a su gran habilidad para retratar a la sociedad en la que vivió, es considerada como uno de los clásicos de la literatura inglesa. Las novelas de Jane Austen son un reflejo de la nobleza rural inglesa de la época; gracias a su ironía e ingenio y a lo atractivo de su narrativa, se mantienen como un referente de la literatura universal.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Su obra ha sido adaptada al cine, al teatro y a la televisión en numerosas ocasiones. Durante la década de 1790 escribió los primeros borradores de sus exitosas novelas x{0026}lt;I Sentido y sensibilidadx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La abadía de Northangerx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Orgullo y prejuiciox{0026}lt;/I , inspiradas en el color localde Kent y Bath. Entre 1810 y 1817 verían la luz x{0026}lt;I Emmax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Mansfield Parkx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Persuasiónx{0026}lt;/I . Austen falleció en 1817 en Winchester.x{0026}lt;/P