Approaches to teaching Austen's Mansfield Park / edited by Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Folsom, Marcia McClintock, editor.

Wiltshire, John, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 135.

Approaches to teaching world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Mansfield Park.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Study and teaching.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Physical Description:

vi, 255 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2014.

Summary:

"There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it was only in the twentieth century that formal and sustained criticism began of this work, which addresses the controversies of its time more than Austen's earlier novels did. Lionel Trilling praised Mansfield Park for exploring the difficult moral life of modernity; Edward Said brought postcolonial theory to the study of the novel; and twenty-first-century critics scrutinize these and other approaches to build on and go beyond them. This volume is the third in the MLA Approaches series to deal with Austen's work (Pride and Prejudice and Emma were the subject of the first and second volumes on Austen, respectively). It provides information about editions, film adaptations, and digital resources, and then nineteen essays discuss various aspects of Mansfield Park, including the slave trade, the theme of reading, elements of tragedy, gift theory, landscape design, moral improvement in the spirit of Samuel Johnson and of the Reformation, sibling relations, card playing, and interpretations of Fanny Price, the heroine, not as passive but as having some control"-- Provided by publisher.

"Offers techniques for teaching Austen's novel, including bringing gender, class, family, landscape, morality, nationalism, postcolonial theory, film adaptations, and literary contexts such as Milton, Byron, Richardson, and Samuel Johnson into the college classroom. Includes information on editions, reference works, and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Gifts always come with strings attached : teaching Mansfield Park in the context of gift theory / Dorice Williams Elliott

Mansfield Park : Austen's most teachable novel / Pamela Bromberg

Mansfield Park's textual metamorphoses / Laura Carroll

Suggestions of desire in horse riding, foxhunting, and music making in Mansfield Park / Karyn Lehner

The price of a maxim : plausibility in Fanny's happy ending / Monica F. Cohen

Speculation in Mansfield Park / Regulus Allen

Mansfield Park and the family : love, hate, and sibling relations / Kay Souter

Questions of interiority : from Pride and Prejudice to Mansfield Park / Julia Prewitt Brown

Understanding Fanny Price : close reading early scenes / Anne Mallory

Authorities of the Crawfords / Peter W. Graham

Reading with Mansfield Park's readers / Susan Allen Ford

Understanding Mansfield Park through the rehearsals for Lover's vows / Penny Gay

The tragic action of Mansfield Park / Sarah Emsley

Avenues, parks, wilderness, and ha-has : the use and abuse of landscape in Mansfield Park / Inger Sigrun Bredkjaer Brodey

Samuel Johnson and the morality of Mansfield Park / Deborah J. Knuth Klenck

Reading aloud in Mansfield Park / Laura Dabundo

Mansfield Park and the pedagogy of geography / Lynn Voskuil

"That was now the home" : nationalism and imperialism in Mansfield Park / Lisa Kasmer

"You do not know me" : reformation and rights in Mansfield Park / Paula Loscocco.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603291972

1603291970

9781603291989

1603291989

OCLC:

877851094

Online:

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