num_pages: 544
description: "Contexts" includes contemporary materials on the slave trade, religion, conduct literature for women, and landscape design that illuminate this dark and often disturbing novel. Elizabeth Inchbald's adaptation of Lovers' Vows (the play staged by the characters in Mansfield Park) is included, as are writings by Humphry Repton, Thomas Gisborne, Hannah More, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others."Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.The critics include Jan Fergus, Lionel Trilling, Alistair Duckworth, Nina Auerebach, Claudia L. Johnson, Joseph Litvak, Edward Said, B. C. Southam, and Joseph Lew.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
language: English
title: Mansfield Park
titlecomplete: Mansfield Park
characters: Sir Thomas Bertram, Mary Crawford, Edmund Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Julia Bertram, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Mrs. Norris, Lady Bertram, Tom Bertram, Henry Crawford, Maria Bertram, William Price
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, British Literature, Classics, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 338792
places: United Kingdom, Northamptonshire, England, England, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company