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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewBelknap’s recently released annotated
Mansfield Park, edited by [Deidre Shauna] Lynch, is a 532-page, colour-illustrated tour de force. -- Devoney Looser * Times Literary Supplement *
This is a coffee-table book that folks—Austen fans in particular—will actually read. -- Laurie Hertzel * Star Tribune *
Lynch here makes Austen’s most divisive novel accessible, intriguing, and beautiful. She strikes a deft balance between information and analysis in her notes and with supporting documents that lend historical depth to the edition, while also linking the narrative to popular culture… With this edition, readers will want to stay with these characters for as long as possible. -- Emily Bowles * Library Journal (starred review) *
Deidre Lynch’s edition of
Mansfield Park weaves critical debate into an engaging argument about the subtlety and complexity of Fanny Price’s character. The annotations are unfailingly lucid and succinct, calculated to stimulate both imagination and thought. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of Virginia
Austenites will want to own this edition of
Mansfield Park because they have previously been frustrated or maddened by the novel, and because they want to understand how and why to like it, how to get more out of it, how to comprehend its place within Austen’s oeuvre. We are all lucky to find a scholar and critic of Deidre Lynch’s caliber as an editor and guide. -- Katie Trumpener, Yale University
