num_pages: 528
description: Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice , its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for her principles and desires. Fanny comes to live at Mansfield Park, the home of the wealthy Bertram family, and of Fanny’s aunt, Lady Bertram. Though the family impresses upon Fanny her inferior status, she finds a friend in Edmund, the younger brother. Mansfield Park explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertrams’ wealth), the oppressive nature of idealized femininity, and women’s education. This edition sheds light on these and other issues through its insightful introduction and wide-ranging appendices of contemporary documents.
language: English
title: Mansfield Park
titlecomplete: Mansfield Park (Broadview Literary Texts)
characters: Mr. Rushworth, Mary Crawford, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Julia Bertram, Henry Crawford, Tom Bertram, Lady Bertram, Mr. Yates, Mrs. Norris, Sir Thomas Bertram, Edmund Bertram, William Price, Maria Bertram
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 338779
places: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Northamptonshire, England, England
publisher: Broadview Press