The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine Fanny Price in this nineteenth-century novel accompanied by related writings, annotations, and criticism The text is that of a new authoritative text, which closely follows the one Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816. Acknowledgments ix(2) Introduction xi Jane Austen and Mansfield Park xi(2) A Note on Money in Austen's Novels xiii(3) A Note on Austen and the Text of Mansfield Park xvi The Text of Mansfield Park 1(326) Map of England 2(1) Facsimile title page 3(2) Mansfield Park 5(318) Textual Notes 323(4) Contexts 327(86) Elizabeth Inchbald Lovers' Vows (1798) 329(46) Jane Austen Opinions of Mansfield Park (1814, 1815) 375(4) Evening Prayer No. I 379(1) A Companion to the Altar 380(2) On Family Prayer 380(2) Humphrey Repton Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795) 382(4) From Chapter III. Proper Situations for a House 382(4) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803) 386(1) From Chapter VII. Farm and Park Distinct Objects 386(1) William Cowper The Task (1785) 387(4) From Book I. The Sofa 387(1) From Book III. The Garden 388(3) John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughter (1774) 391(2) From Conduct and Behaviour 391(2) From Amusements 393(1) Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 393(5) From Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed 393(4) From Chapter III. The Same Subject Continued 397(1) Thomas Gisborne An Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain (1794) 398(3) From Chapter XI. On the Duties of the Clerical Profession 398(3) An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797) 401(3) From Chapter IX. On Amusements in General 401(1) From Chapter X. On the Employment of Time 402(2) Hannah More Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) 404(2) From Chapter VI. Filial Obedience Not the Character of the Age 404(2) Parliamentary Debates (1806) 406(3) From Abolition of the Slave Trade 406(3) Thomas Clarkson From History of the... Abolition of the African Slave Trade... (1808) 409(1) Elizabeth Inchbald Remarks on Shakespeare's King Henry VIII (1806-09) 410(3) Criticism 413(98) Jan Fergus Power and Mansfield Park 415(8) Lionel Trilling Mansfield Park 423(11) Alistair Duckworth Mansfield Park: Jane Austen's Grounds of Being 434(11) Nina Auerbach Jane Austen's Dangerous Charm: Feeling as One Ought about Fanny Price 445(13) Claudia L. Johnson Mansfield Park: Confusions of Guilt and Revolutions of Mind 458(18) Joseph Litvak The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park 476(14) Edward Said Jane Austen and Empire 490(3) Brian Southam The Silence of the Bertrams 493(5) Joseph Lew That Abominable Traffic: Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of Slavery 498(13) Jane Austen: A Chronology 511(2) Selected Bibliography 513