Category: Mansfield Park

Chapter 1 Characters Mrs. Price Mrs. Price is Fanny Prices mother and has 9 children. Her family is not very rich, so she decides to send Fanny to live with the Bertrams. Mrs. Norris Mrs. Norris is Fannys aunt, and is very dramatic, self-righteous, and does not like Fanny, as she keeps saying that she…

By writing Mansfield park to be a real-life foil to Elizabeth Inchbalds interpretation of August Von Kotzebues Lovers Vows, Jane Austen re-inverts Kotzebues subversive moral standard and creates a work positing equal moral conscience. Austens resulting text is a novel that, although separate in its stories and characters, also upholds distinct parallels to Lovers Vows…

Review Article: Jane Austen & the Empire by Edward Said In his essay Jane Austen and the Empire, from the book Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said outlays an argument surrounding Austens work on the British life which is related to the geographical positioning and politics in her novel Mansfield Park. At the same time he…