Mansfield Park (World's Classics S.)

by Marilyn Butler (Introduction), Marilyn Butler (Introduction), Jane Austen (Author), Jane Austen (Author), James Kinsley (Editor)

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  First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered. The text is taken from R.W.Chapman's Oxford edition, edited by James Kinsley and with additional notes from John Lucas. The new introduction is by Marilyn Butler, whose critical works include Jane Austen and the War of Ideas and Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries .

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  1948

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  Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.