| Mansfield Park Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Johnson, Claudia L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393967913 ISBN-13: 9780393967913 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: A Norton Critical Edition classic, recommended for students and general reader alike. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96049462 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5.06" W x 8.42" (1.12 lbs) 544 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 58702 Reading Level: 12.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 35.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Supporting materials include an introduction, annotations, and a map. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Austen, Jane: - Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.Johnson, Claudia L.: - Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s, editor of the Mansfield Park Norton Critical Edition, and author of many articles on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature. |