Mansfield Park

In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard’s annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen’s design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire.

In notele si introducerea sa la acest volum final din seria adnotata Austen de la Harvard, Deidre Shauna Lynch subliniaza dezacordurile critice pe care le-a starnit Mansfield Park si sugereaza ca scopul lui Austen in scrierea romanului a fost acela de a evidentia, nu de a minimiza, sentimentele conflictuale pe care le pot inspira intriga si eroina sa.