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Mar 31, 2019 · Mansfield Park, begun in 1811 and finished in 1813, is the first of Austen’s novels to be a complete product of her maturity. The longest, most didactic, and least ironic of her books, it is the one critics generally have the most trouble reconciling with their prevailing ideas of the author.
The focus of Austen's criticism seems to be elsewhere. The true opposition in the novel is between selfishness and selflessness. Marianne's relationship with Willoughby errs, not in its...
Jane Austen's characters inhabit a hyper-polite society, where admirable displays of selflessness and concern for others are often the result of characters' self-interest, and what is right for them they consider right for everyone.
- Alex Hoffer
As one might expect, the bicentennial was a time of great activity among critics. Individual articles, special issues of journals, and several books appeared offering new readings of individual works, assessments of Austen’s reputation, and speculations about the future of Austen studies.
- Laurence W. Mazzeno
Aug 12, 2024 · Austen skillfully portrays the tensions between sense and sensitivity, selfishness and selflessness through the characters she creates, both in their actions and in their patterns of speech...
Feb 22, 2018 · Modern criticism of Austen’s novels is generally thought to begin with Bradley 1998 (originally 1911), a lecture, followed by Lascelles 1939 (cited under Style), the first full-length study of Jane Austen’s literary technique, in which Lascelles outlines the bond of friendship created between author and reader through Austen’s style ...
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A pioneering work of politically engaged historicist criticism, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas urges us, moreover, to see Austen's antisentimentalism as something more than a set of apolitical aesthetic and stylistic choices.
