...Peggy Thompson Jane Austen uses “habit” and its variants four times as often in Mansfield Park as she does in her previous novel, Pride and Prejudice . In what seems, then, to be a deliberate exploration of habit, the novel repeatedly recalls Aristotle's views on habit, which could well have been...

... of money and land is a key virtue to be examined in her characters. It remains puzzling that Scheuermann chooses to bypass these early novels and focus on the later ones. But her excellent study of Mansfield Park, which occupies the most exten- sive section of the book, makes us forgive her...

... (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. lxxxii + 540. 2 ills. $149, £72. ISBN 0-521-82514-8 Jane Austen. Mansfield Park , ed. John Wiltshire. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. lxxxviii + 738. 2 ills. $137, £72. ISBN 0-521-82765-5 Jane Austen...

... studies as Isobel Grundy, Cora Kaplan, Felicity Nussbaum, and Janet Todd. But new voices are represented, too. Moi Rickman contributes an essay on the connection between racial theories and the language of sensibility, while Katie Halsey analyzes allusions in Mansfield Park. And Helen Thompson...

... in Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion In each of her later novels, Austen illustrates the challenges men face when attempting to achieve the ideal of benevolence. Although she was hardly a Jacobin, her representation of the challenge of benevolence for landed gentle- men in particular raises questions about...

... this change is a sign of her empowerment. Havens turns to manuscripts, including juvenilia samples and “The Watsons,” to explain how Austen incorporated “traces” of her unpublished writings into novels, namely Sense and Sensibility , Mansfield Park , and Persuasion (91). Havens's study of sensibility...

... voyage, but this, he says, is because he knows the book so well that he can remember it without the text.6 Ten years later, in his notebook records of “Books read” for 10 June to 14 November 1840, Darwin’s entries include “Mansfield Park. Sense & S.[ensibility]” and “Northanger Abbey.”7...

..., one on Austen’s juvenile work Evelyn, another on Sense and Sensibility, and a final chapter on Persuasion. She thus leaves room for other critics to apply her approach to Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Sanditon, and the rest of the juvenilia. Barchas’s underlying assumption...

...- romance tradition that it satirizes and places it among the great domestic tragedies, on which it offers a benign critique. “Jane Austen’s Future Shock” begins with the recognition that both con- temporary and subsequent critics failed is reading Mansfield Park: it is “a novel of the future...

...- romance tradition that it satirizes and places it among the great domestic tragedies, on which it offers a benign critique. “Jane Austen’s Future Shock” begins with the recognition that both con- temporary and subsequent critics failed is reading Mansfield Park: it is “a novel of the future...

... the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and three works by her favorite authors published in the same year: Frances Burney’s The Wan- derer, Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage, and Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly. Many delegates took advantage of the private viewings of the exhibitions with Grainger, where...

... the very figure of the Humean moral sublime. In her final four chapters, Valihora reads three Austen novels — ​Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park — ​both as instantiations of a Shaftesburian aesthetics and as engagements with the discourse of the pic- turesque...

...), frequently seem based on common sense and everyday perception, this invites contrary viewpoints even as it seemingly attempts to foreclose them. Those contrary viewpoints, chapter 5 argues, rise to the surface in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814), when both Mary Crawford and Fanny Price, seemingly...

... (New York: Palgrave, 2002). Pp. 262. $55. isbn 0-312-23938-6 Austen, Jane. Emma: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Alistair M. Duckworth (New York: Palgrave, 2002). Pp. 637. $60. isbn 0-312-23708-1 Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park...

...: Being the Smartest, Wittiest, and Drollest Collection of Original Jests, Jokes, Repartees, &c (London: Printed for the Editor, 1781). 10.  Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814), ed. John Wiltshire (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005), 149. 11.  Margaret Weedon, “Jane Austen and William...

... the mourned.” Nora Nachumi’s “A Spy in the House of Austen: Literary Critics, Lay Readers, and the Reception of Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park” analyzes reactions in the “academic” and “lay” spheres to Patricia Rozema’s 1999 film adaptation of Mansfield Park.Although Nachumi’s essay...

... inform even characters such as Henry Craw- ford in Mansfield Park, where an identity as a rake goes hand in hand with pretentious suggestions for so-called improvements. Contradiction is, of course, part and parcel of the emblematic garden. With prominent symbolic gardens in both Genesis...

... (and Mansfield Park has more actual quotations), but because of the kinds of literature to which it alludes. In Jane Austen’s Art of Memory Joc- elyn Harris writes about Persuasion’s affinities with Chaucer (the Wife of Bath’s prologue and tale), as well as Shakespeare, Coleridge, and of course, Sir...

... Crawford and Mrs. Grant in Mansfield Park (1814): I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry. Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself. I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines...

... predecessors, even when, in the end, they disagree with them. The remaining essays in this section include Lynn Festa’s “Losing One’s Place in Mansfield Park,” which uses Pocockian historiography as the basis for an argument regarding the relationship between personality (Fanny Price’s in particular...