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• W239835525 abstract "IT WAS at the JASNA meeting Boston 2000 that I first learned, the foyer of the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, that there was to be a new, authoritative, scholarly edition of Jane Austen's works to be published by Cambridge University Press. I've known Mansfield Park since my schoolboy days, and, without its being exactly my favorite novel, it's the work of Jane Austen that I've always found most deeply interesting, challenging, and powerful. And so, for the next five years I found myself working on Mansfield Park. This paper is about the interaction of criticism and scholarship, and how exploring the background (as it's sometimes called) of the novel can contribute to our reading. I'm going to tell the story of my journeys in the footsteps of Fanny Price search of the places the novel. But behind this story is another kind of journey, or rather exploration: an exploration search of answers to a series of conceptual issues. So let me preface the story of my journeys with these questions. The great effort of academic writing on Jane Austen for the last twenty or so years can be summed up the term or notion of historicization. Scholars with all sorts of backgrounds have sought to embed Jane Austen's novels within their historical setting--to understand the context of her work, whether the circumstances of her life, the politics and culture of her time, or the practices of publication. Much of this work of historicization is wonderfully clever, making the smallest details yield information, or detecting Jane Austen's prose the slightest echo of Shakespeare, the Bible, or references to the contemporary novelists and poets she may well have read. It has resulted a greatly increased consciousness of Jane Austen's relation to her historical and cultural context. But this great critical effort of historicization sits oddly with previous academic commentary on Jane Austen--work which undertook to read the novels, more or less, as free-standing, independent, works of art. As works of art, by definition, it was thought that they contained within themselves the knowledge necessary to our understanding. If pressed, this school of critics might suggest that the novels are like trees that certainly draw their life and sustenance from the ground which they grow, and the atmosphere they inhabit, but are qualitatively distinct from what surrounds them. They cannot be explained by their context or reduced to items of history--and so the last resort, such critics might claim, historical information is largely irrelevant to what makes us enjoy and love the novels. This kind of criticism, which still continues to be written, has contributed some of the most illuminating and enduring readings of Jane Austen's novels. The tussle between these two points of view was my mind as I was working. For--no doubt about it--I was embarking on a task of historicization; I was seeking information from outside the novel that might throw light on its inner life. How much does a general reader need to know? How much, the more academic context, ought a reader to know? Or, to put the question more exactly: do the novels actually present us with difficulties that need to be solved before we can feel comfortable with them, before we can be said to understand them, before we can enjoy them? If you think the answer to this question is plainly no (about Pride and Prejudice, for example), then it might be just that ignorance is bliss. As a reader uninformed of the historical context, it might be that one is missing a great deal--and not know that one is missing it. Another way of putting this is to say: Can we sustain an innocent reading of Jane Austen? After I had taken on the editorship, I went three times to England search of materials. I worked the British Library, Cambridge University Library, the Bodleian Oxford, and other libraries too. I also visited most of the places referred to the novel. …" @default.
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