SOURCE: “‘A Little Spirit of Independence’: Sexual Politics and the Bildungsroman in Mansfield Park,” in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring, 1984, pp. 197-214.
In the following essay, McDonnell evaluates Mansfield Park as a Bildungsroman that deals authentically with feminine childhood experience.
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