Mansfield Park is a novel written by the Englishwoman Jane Austen in 1814, the first entirely written in her mature years, since she worked there during the year 1813. Often considered the most experimental of all her writings, It is more difficult than the others, and her principal character, the timid and silent Fanny Price, is a paradoxical heroine, which hardly appetites the reader. However, Mansfield Park is undoubtedly a success, since the entire draw is exhausted in just six months and brings to its author the most ...
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Mansfield Park is a novel written by the Englishwoman Jane Austen in 1814, the first entirely written in her mature years, since she worked there during the year 1813. Often considered the most experimental of all her writings, It is more difficult than the others, and her principal character, the timid and silent Fanny Price, is a paradoxical heroine, which hardly appetites the reader. However, Mansfield Park is undoubtedly a success, since the entire draw is exhausted in just six months and brings to its author the most important gains it has hitherto derived from a single publication. Jane Austen's only novel, which takes place over a period of ten years, follows the evolutionary stages of heroine since she was ten years old and could be the forerunner of novels of Jane Eyre or David Copperfield. But, as the author has chosen to give it the name of the property, it is Mansfield Park, the place of life of the family of the baronet Sir Thomas Bertram, who is, so to speak, the central figure. Fanny Price, the poor little cousin greeted by charity, must first learn to feel at home before finally becoming the moral conscience. The political and economic context is particularly present and plays a part in the plot: Sir Thomas has spent many months in Antigua, in the Caribbean, restoring the situation on his plantations (where slaves work), and his long absence leaves too much Liberties to his children. With William Price, Fanny's elder brother, who participates in the military expeditions in the West Indies and the Mediterranean, is evoked the situation of war with France.....
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