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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Mansfield Park"”.
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A LOOK AT MORALITY IN CONNECTION TO MARGINALIZATION AND DISABILITY IN JANE AUSTEN’S MANSFIELD PARK
<p>Jane Austen’s <em>Mansfield Park</em> (1814) has received a lot of modern critical attention specifically within the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies. There is, however, a notable lack of disability studies scholarship on this novel. The novel’s heroine, Fanny Price, suffers from …
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The Incurable Fanny Price: Disabled Perspective and Resistance to the Cure Narrative in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
… the minds of the characters in Jane Austen’s <em>Mansfield Park</em>. However, what happens when you introduce a chronically ill character like Fanny, who can’t ever be fully cured, into these curative plots? In order to better understand the ways Austen complicates curative discourse, this paper …
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They Blush Because They Understand: The Performative Power of Women's Humor and Embarrassment in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma
… of Jane Austen's novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Using speech-act theory, I specifically examine Elizabeth's, Emma's, and Mary's utterances to demonstrate that in order for humorous utterances to be subversive, they must challenge societal or patriarchal constructs …
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The Effects of the Evangelical Reformation Movement on Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte as Observed in Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre
… within the Anglican Church in their novels Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre, respectively. Both authors, as daughters of Anglican clergymen, were aware of and influenced by the movement, but at varying degrees. This project begins with a brief explanation of the state of the Anglian Church and …
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The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977
… Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Mansfield Park (1814), Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1869), and Jorge Amado’s Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Tieta, the Goat Girl (1977), authors emphasize their heroine’s beauty in order to distract readers from their characters’ …
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"A Stranger to the World": Women, Bisexuality, and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England
… the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft, and it reads each text through popular visual culture of the twenty-first century. Using the term bisexuality encourages a deeper consideration of both the benefits and potential disadvantages in …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… manners economy they portray. In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, social economies are controlled by an invisible hand that can be trusted to reward deserving economic agents, and punish the undeserving. William Thackeray's Vanity Fair shows how social economies can be impacted by speculative …
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The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
… select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies …
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A critical examination of three Jane Austen fragments and their bearing on her completed novels
… of tranquillity and modesty that looks ahead to Mansfield Park, as does the concern with clerical duty. Chapter III focuses upon Sanditon. Coming after the tenderness of Persuasion, this fragment is disconcertingly robust. In its use of caricature, the device of mistaken identity and. mockery of …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… the first chapter, I look at how Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814) and Persuasion (1818) engage blackness without featuring a single black or mixed-race character. Reading this absence as literary strategy, I argue that the two novels reject the popular view of blackness as too restrictively …