Mansfield Park

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novel's publication. Some dislike the character of Fanny as "priggish" (however, it is
Edmund who sets the moral tone here), or have no sympathy for her forced inaction
(doubtless, those are people who have never lacked confidence, or been without a
date on Friday night!). Mansfield Park has also been used to draw connections between
the "genteel" rural English society that Jane Austen describes and the outside world,
since Fanny's uncle is a slave-owner (with an estate in Antigua in the Caribbean;
slavery was not abolished in the British empire until 1833). Like a number of other
topics, Jane Austen only chose to allude glancingly to the slave trade and slavery in
her novels, though she was aware of contemporary debates on the subject. Mansfield
Park was one of only two of Jane Austen's novels to be revised by her after its first
publication, when a second edition came out in 1816 (this second edition was a failure
in terms of ...

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