Ordination and revolution in Mansfield Park.(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Karounos, Michael | Copyright information 
  Now I will try to write of something else:--it shall be a complete 
  change of subject--Ordination. 
  --Jane Austen (1)

Nearly two hundred years after the writing of Mansfield Park (1814), scholars still debate the meaning and degree of emphasis in Austen's famous quotation that the novel was about "ordination." It is suggested here that a too-narrow application of the meaning of ordination solely to Edmund Bertram has stymied fruitful research. The following readin...

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