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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Mansfield Park

Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Jane Austen and Mansfield Park
  • A Note on Money in Austen’s Novels
  • A Note on Austen and the Text of Mansfield Park
  • The Text of Mansfield Park
  • Map of England
  • Facsimile title page
  • Mansfield Park
  • Textual Notes
  • Contexts
  • Elizabeth Inchbald, Lover’s Vows (1798)
  • Jane Austen, Opinions of Mansfield Park (1814, 1815)
    • Evening Prayer No. I
    • A Comparison to the Altar
    • On Family Prayer
  • Humphrey Repton, Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795)
    • From Chapter III. Proper Situations for a House
    • Observations on the Theory & Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803)
    • From Chapter VII. Farm and Park Distinct Objects
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785)
    • From Book I. The Sofa
    • From Book III. The Gardeon
  • John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to His Daughter (1774)
    • From Conduct and Behaviour
    • From Amusements
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
    • From Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
    • From Chapter III. The Same Subject Continued
  • Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britian (1794)
    • From Chapter XI. On the Duties of the Clerical Profession
    • An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797)
    • From Chapter IX. On Amusements in General
    • From Chapter X. On the Employment of Time
  • Hannah More, Strictures of the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
    • From Chapter VI. Filial Obedience Not the Character of the Age Parliamentary Debates (1806)
    • From Abolition of the Slave Trade
  • Thomas Clarkson, From History of the...Abolition of the African Slave Trade...(1808)
  • Elizabeth Inchbald, Remarks on Shakespeare’s King Henry VII (1806-09)
  • Criticism
  • Jan Fergus, Power in Mansfield Park
  • Lionel Trilling, Mansfield Park
  • Alistair Duckworth, Mansfield Park: Jane Austen’s Grounds of Being
  • Nina Auerbach, Jane Austen’s Dangerous Charm: Feeling as One Ought about Fanny Price
  • Claudia L. Johnson, Mansfield Park: Confusions of Guilt and Revolutions of Mind
  • Joseph Litvak, The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park
  • Edward Said, Jane Austen and Empire
  • Brian Southam, The Silence of the Bertrams
  • Joseph Lew … "That Abominable Traffic": Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of Slavery
  • Jane Austen: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography