Reinventing Fanny Price: Patricia Rozema's thoroughly modern Mansfield Park.(Critical essay) From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Monaghan, David | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Manitoba, Mosaic. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Rozema claims that, in reimagining Fanny Price, she has uncovered a contemporary "Jane Austen." An examination of the movement motif in film and novel versions of Mansfield Park reveals that Rozema's achievement is actually to make a plot based closely on the novel express a world view very different from Austen's.

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Academic criticism of Jane Austen's novels has taken a radical turn during the last twenty-five years as scholars have constructed an A...