Vows in Mansfield Park: the promises of courtship.

From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Regis, Pamela | Copyright information

MANSFIELD PARK, JANE AUSTEN'S PROBLEM NOVEL, shares one of its problems--the courtship plot--with the other five novels that Austen published. Darryl Jones, a recent apologist for Austen's choice of this plot, surveys the literary marketplace of the 1810s and concludes "it was ... virtually impossible for a woman writer of Austen's generation to publish any other kind of novel" (14). We will never know if Austen may have had difficulty publishing another kind of novel. She never tr...

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