Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jane Austen: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Mansfield Park

Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park

Appendix B: Religion

Appendix C: Ideals of Femininity

Appendix D: “The Improvement of the Estate”

Appendix E: The West Indian Connection

Appendix F: Women’s Education

Appendix G: Contemporary Reception of Mansfield Park

Appendix H: Jane Austen’s Letters and Mansfield Park

Works Cited and Recommended Reading

About the Author

June Sturrock teaches at Simon Fraser University. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature, and is the author of ‘Heaven and Home': Charlotte M. Yonge's Domestic Fiction and the Victorian Debate Over Women.

Reviews

“Unlike Jane Austen's earlier novels, Mansfield Park is embedded within a specific historical moment, and the Introduction to this Broadview edition splendidly brings out the novel's engagement with a range of contemporary controversies, from female education to the slave trade and the proper use of wealth. The appendices, too, offer readers a generous range of material, expertly selected and introduced. They extend our insight into what Sturrock shows is Austen's most discomforting—as well as engrossing—text.” - John Wiltshire, LaTrobe University, Australia

“An excellent edition. Sturrock's introduction provides a nuanced view of Mansfield Park as well as judicious treatment of the critical debates the novel has prompted in recent years. Her annotations are genuinely helpful, and the appendices thought-provoking. With a sharp eye for the most relevant passages, Sturrock has assembled late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writings on issues such as slavery, female education, and private theatricals. These writings create fascinating vantage points from which to view Austen's novel, and they make clear how profound a response it was to contemporary cultural concerns.” - Deborah Kaplan, George Mason University