Cooking Up a Story: Jane West, Prudentia Homespun, and the Consumption of Fiction

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Thame
Keyword(s):  
Jane West

The One and the Manor

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Stout
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Possessive Individualism ◽  
The One ◽  
Jane West

Chapter two reassesses the conservatism of Jane Austen’s 1814 novel, Mansfield Park. It argues that we have misunderstood the novel by reading it in relation to the late eighteenth-century philosophy of Edmund Burke and socially conservative novelists like Jane West when, in fact, Mansfield Park is governed by a much older of social organization—the manor—not based on the liberal assumption of possessive individualism. Seeing the novel through the lens of the manor, the chapter argues, helps explain many of its most perplexing and difficult features: among them, the meekness of Fanny Price; the dissatisfactions of its ending; and the often distant or impersonal strategies of narration.

‘THE INWARD DISPOSITIONS OF THE HEART’: JANE AUSTEN AND JANE WEST

1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-171
Author(s):  
COLIN PEDLEY
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Jane West

Jane West as Political Pamphleteer: A New Attribution

2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-281
Author(s):  
D. Thame
Keyword(s):  
Jane West

SOME NEW INFORMATION ON JANE WEST

1984 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAMELA LLOYD
Keyword(s):  
New Information ◽  
Jane West
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