Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603291989
• ISBN13: 9781603291989
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher