CPLT 389W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jane Austen
21 Jun 2018
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JANE AUSTEN MANSFIELD PARK DISCUSSION (snow day)
CPLT Notes
Jane Austen - born in 1775
Austen grew up poor? Didn’t grow up wealthy, but was still gentry, had many brothers
that took inheritance
Family moved around a lot, relied on charity of relatives
Died at 41 of some cancer (?)
Mansfield Park: 1814 published
Was not as popular, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice published
beforehand
1. Some critics think Mansfield was a purist approach? Was influenced by her own life
possibly
2. Some critics think it stands out bc it’s a satire
Several of her books were published posthumously
MANSFIELD PARK
Main Events
-3 sisters marry
-1 sister isolated
- Fanny lives w the Bertrams and is shook
-Edmund and Fanny band
-Sir TB goes to Antigua
-RIP Mr. Norris
-grants move in
-Maria is engaged to Mr. Rushworth
-Crawford also move in
-Everyone ignores Fanny
