in:
Anglia
Tübingen:
1999
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325 - 352 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Schöneich, Christoph |
| In: | Anglia |
| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| The starting point of this essay is a recent controversy between Edward Said and Brian Southam about the ideological content of Mansfield Park. Said has described the novel as a preimperialist text, whereas Southam claims that it supports (like its protagonist Fanny Price) the abolition of the slave-trade. Focussing on a close analysis of "configuration" (the small-scale arrangement of individual characters in different scenes) and "movement" (the association of characters with the most important elements of the setting like Mansfield Park, London, Antigua), the paper seeks to re-examine the complicated question of Jane Austen's relation to modernity, which turns out to be neither an unqualified conservative retreat from its burdens (Trilling) nor an unreserved acceptance of its dynamism (Fleishman). Mansfield Park is a narrative of ambiguity. | |
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