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'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt2

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In the second part of this lecture on ways of reading Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park', Richard De Ritter examines the literary theorist Edward Said's discussion of the novel and the presence of slavery within the narrative. De Ritter demonstrates that Austen draws upon a character type of the languid, plantation-owner's wife in the creation of Lady Bertram's indolent femininity; a woman who lives in comfort and leisure supported by the slave trade.

Date Published: 13 July 2012
Contributors:
Richard De Ritter
In Collection(s): Jane Austen
Source:
The English Faculty
Cite: 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt2 by Richard De Ritter at http://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/323-a-dead-silence-reading-jane-austens-mansfield-park-pt2 via http://writersinspire.org/content/dead-silence-reading-jane-austens-mansfield-park-pt2. Published on 13 July 2012. Accessed on 08 November 2024.

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