Essays about: "Mansfield Park"

Found 5 essays containing the words Mansfield Park.

  1. 1. Fallible Fathers in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Tanja Spurr; [2019]
    Keywords : Gender Performance; Jane Austen; Fathers; Mansfield Park; Pride and Prejudice;

    Abstract : Using Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, this essay will show how Sir Thomas and Mr Bennet fail in their role as fathers, related to expectations in the social context, and how their failure is necessary for the eventual marriages of the heroines, Fanny Price and Elizabeth Bennet. The fathers’ failure also leads to the elopement of Maria Bertram and Lydia Bennet. READ MORE

  3. 2. Feeling as Perceptibility and Trembling in Mansfield Park

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tea Fredriksson; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The aim of the investigation is to show that Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is a novel centred on a conflict between feeling understood as represented sentiment and feeling understood as affective immanence. The study uses a phenomenological approach that stands in alignment with Michel Henry’s critique of Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology of transcendence. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Perfect Gentleman: Exploring a Development of Masculine Ideals in Jane Austen's Heroes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Jenny Rothman; [2011]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; hero; heroes; gentleman; gentlemen; Henry Tilney; Edward Ferrars; Colonel Brandon; Mr Darcy; Edmund Bertram; Mr Knightley; Captain Wentworth; eighteenth-century literature; nineteenth-century literature; masculine ideals; chivalry; politeness; chivalrous; chivalric ideal; polite ideal; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The fact that Jane Austen composed and edited her novels during two eventful decades in Britain’s history excites an interest to investigate if this has affected the creation of her characters. This thesis explores whether Austen’s heroes develop in accordance with a shift in masculine ideals that can be discerned around the turn of the nineteenth century. READ MORE

  5. 4. What Makes a Happy Marriage? : A Study of Choice in Four Jane Austen Novels

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Gao Yishen; [2010]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to show how important both the outward and inward factors are in decision-making process in relation to marriage in the four novels Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. The argument was that all Austen’s novels revolve around the balance of all external and internal factors. READ MORE

  6. 5. Moral Education in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Maria Wartanian; [2010]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Education; Bildungsroman; Jane Austen; Utbildning; Bildungsroman;

    Abstract : Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are still affected by them and her characters. READ MORE