Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-02-05
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ISBN:

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

Mansfield Parsonage

Mansfield Parsonage
Author: Kyra C Kramer
Publisher: Madeglobal Publishing
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788494649820

Fans of Jane Austen will recognise the players and the setting - Mansfield Park has been telling the story of Fanny Price and her happily ever after for more than 200 years. But behind the scenes of Mansfield Park, there's another story to be told. Mary Crawford's story. When her widowed uncle made her home untenable, Mary made the best of things by going to live with her elder sister, Mrs Grant, in a parson's house the country. Mansfield Parsonage was more than Mary had expected and better than she could have hoped. Gregarious and personable, Mary also embraced the inhabitants of the nearby Mansfield Park, watching the ladies set their caps for her dashing brother, Henry Crawford, and developing an attachment to Edmund Bertram and a profound affection for his cousin, Fanny Price. Mansfield Parsonage retells the story of Mansfield Park from the perspective of Mary Crawford's hopes and aspirations, and shows how Fanny Price's happily-ever-after came at Mary's expense. Or did it?

Fanny

Fanny
Author: Amelia Marie Logan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736208014

Mansfield Park is the only novel in which Jane Austen gives her readers a glimpse of an alternative result and reveals that Fanny's fate might have been very different. Fanny, A Mansfield Park Story answers that possibility and further explores the lives and choices of Austen's fascinating and delightful cast of characters.

The Improvement of the Estate

The Improvement of the Estate
Author: Alistair M. Duckworth
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 142143217X

Originally published in 1994. In The Improvement of the Estate, Alistair Duckworth contends that understanding Mansfield Park is fundamental to appreciating Jane Austen's body of work. Professor Duckworth understands Mansfield Park as underscoring the central uniting theme in Austen's work—her concept of the "estate" and its "improvement." The author illustrates Austen's connection to the values of Christian humanism, which she conveys through the uniting theme of estate improvement. According to Duckworth, the estate represents moral and social heritage, so the manner in which individuals seek to improve their estates in Jane Austen's novels represents the direction in which she saw the state and society moving. Finally, Duckworth underscores Austen's awareness of the importance of a society of individuals whose behavior is socially informed.

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Author: Edward Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521763088

A fully updated edition with seven brand new essays.

Murder at Mansfield Park

Murder at Mansfield Park
Author: Lynn Shepherd
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2011-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459612957

Murder at Mansfield Park is a witty and clever reimagining of Jane Austen's much-loved novel Mansfield Park. But in this Mansfield Park, things have changed ... Formerly Austen's meekest heroine, Fanny Price has become not only an heiress to an extensive fortune but also a heartless, scheming minx. Hiding her true character behind a demure facade, Fanny is indeed betrothed to Edmund, now Mrs Norris's stepson; but do the couple really love each other? Henry and Mary Crawford arrive in the country ready to wreak havoc with their fast city ways, but this time Henry Crawford is troubled by a suspicious past while his sister, Mary, steps forward in the best Austen style to become an unexpected heroine. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes the safe and solid grand house as it becomes the scene of violence. Every member of the family falls under suspicion and the race begins to halt a ruthless murderer. Funny and sharp, Murder at Mansfield Park is simply a delight to read.

Longing

Longing
Author: Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 083875600X

By revealing the origins of common misunderstandings about nostalgia, this book aims, moreover, to show that it creatively fosters a personal and imaginative memory."--Jacket.