Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition - Rilegato

Austen, Jane

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ISBN 10: 0674058100 ISBN 13: 9780674058101

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Jane Austen’s 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 novel’s dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen’s own mother asserted) “insipid”? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary Crawford? Does Fanny’s uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, act as her benefactor, or as a domestic tyrant? In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard’s celebrated annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen’s 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 novel’s experimentalism, its technical virtuosity, and its undiminished capacity, two centuries later, to disturb and to move. Annotations clarify the nuances of Austen’s language and explain the novel’s literary allusions and its engagements with topical controversies over West Indian slavery and the conduct of Britain’s war against France. The volume’s numerous illustrations enable readers to picture the world Mansfield Park’s characters inhabit, underscoring the novel’s close attention to setting and setting’s 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.

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Recensione:

"Deidre Lynch s edition of Mansfield Park" weaves critical debate into an engaging argument about the subtlety and complexity of Fanny Price's character. The annotations are unfailingly lucid and succinct, calculated to stimulate both imagination and thought." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of Virginia

"Austenites will want to own this edition of Mansfield Parkbecause they have previously been frustrated or maddened by the novel, and because they want to understand how and why to like it, how to get more out of it, how to comprehend its place within Austen s oeuvre. We are all lucky to find a scholar and critic of Deidre Lynch s caliber as an editor and guide. --Katie Trumpener, Yale University

L'autore:

One of England s most beloved authors, Jane Austen wrote such classic novels as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. Published anonymously during her life, Austen s work was renowned for its realism, humour, and commentary on English social rites and society at the time. Austen s writing was supported by her family, particularly by her brother, Henry, and sister, Cassandra, who is believed to have destroyed, at Austen s request, her personal correspondence after Austen s death in 1817. Austen s authorship was revealed by her nephew in A Memoir of Jane Austen, published in 1869, and the literary value of her work has since been recognized by scholars around the world.

Deidre Shauna Lynch is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Economy of Character, which was awarded the MLA s Prize for a First Book, and editor of Janeites: Austen s Disciples and Devotees and, with William B. Warner, Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She is also an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, of the State University of New York Chancellor s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.

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• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0674058100
• ISBN 13: 9780674058101
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 532
• Redattore: Lynch Deidre Shauna