Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, January 1st, 2006
WHEN JANE AUSTEN'S "PROBLEM" NOVEL, Mansfield Park, appeared in 1814, a generation-long war had (it was assumed) finally ended. European society, riven by twenty-five years of revolution, war, and political and cultural transformation, hoped for stability and restoration, yet the changes wrought by time and troubles were real and lasting. So too were the changes in the English novel. Mansfield Park reflects those changes in ways that become more apparent when we read it in the context of three other landmark novels published in the same year: Walter Scott's first novel, Waverley, Frances Bur...
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