{"product_id":"mansfield-park-an-annotated-edition-9780674058101","title":"Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eJane Austen's most ambitious novel, \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park, \u003c\/i\u003e has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances' mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled \"Opinions of \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Is this novel's dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen's own mother asserted) \"insipid\"? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary Crawford? Does Fanny's uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, act as her benefactor, or as a domestic tyrant? In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e has sparked and suggests that Austen's design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLynch also engages head-on with the novel's experimentalism, its technical virtuosity, and its undiminished capacity, two centuries later, to disturb and to move. Annotations clarify the nuances of Austen's language and explain the novel's literary allusions and its engagements with topical controversies over West Indian slavery and the conduct of Britain's war against France. The volume's numerous illustrations enable readers to picture the world \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e's characters inhabit, underscoring the novel's close attention to setting and setting's impact on character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMansfield Park: An Annotated Edition\u003c\/i\u003e opens up facets of the novel for even devoted Janeites while extending an open hand to less experienced readers. It will be a welcome addition to the shelf of any library.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674058101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 9.30w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2017 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e58702 \/ Mansfield Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 12 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 35\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jane Austen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096083628213,"sku":"9780674058101","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d6915d81-2383-4002-934c-0991d9524dfe.jpg?v=1692801836","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mansfield-park-an-annotated-edition-9780674058101","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}