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• W77734087 abstract "MANSFIELD PARK is a novel about power relations--about domination and resistance. I take a lead from James C. Scott, two of whose books describe and analyze the prosaic but constant that everyday forms of peasant entail, often over many years. His earlier book, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985), documents the covert but stubborn resistance of relatively powerless people. Scott describes the ordinary weapons of relatively powerless as foot dragging, dissimulation, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander, arson, sabotage, and so (Weapons 29). Crossing barriers of geography, culture, and historical periods, Scott identifies the ways that a social avalanche of petty acts of insubordination and other forms of resistance have eviscerated the policies of widely disparate authorities. In all these cases, noncompliance, subtle sabotage, evasion, and characterize the relatively successful modes of resistance by powerless people to the authorities, whose schemes are sometimes nibbled to extinction by peasant resistance (31). His later book, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990), puts into words what Scott calls the hidden transcripts of relations between the powerful and the powerless, identifying what is spoken by each in private, in contrast to their public declarations. Public confrontations, he says, are usually laden with deception. The powerless pretend to be deferential, and the powerful subtly make their mastery felt. Behind the backs of their antagonists, both express mockery and disdain of the other. Scott himself sees the applicability of his thinking to literary works, in Weapons of the Weak drawing on the writing of George Eliot, Orwell, Brecht, and Ralph Ellison but not, in either book, on any novel by Jane Austen. Even though Scott's works are about groups of people--the relatively powerless and the powerful in hierarchical societies--the provocative terms of his analysis offer language for analyzing power relations in Mansfield Park, Austen's supreme study of the exercise of power and the resistance of the weak to coercion. Many critics have thought that Fanny Price is too silent or passive to be a compelling heroine, but insights from Scott's books explain Fanny Price's struggle to resist the demands of her adoptive family. It might be argued that the whole of Austen's novel is constructed to examine the uses of power and Fanny's resistance to it, during the theatricals in Volume One and, even more, from the last chapter of Volume Two through fifteen of the seventeen chapters of Volume Three, in the determined effort by Henry Crawford and Sir Thomas Bertram to persuade, coerce, threaten, scold, or manipulate Fanny into marrying Henry or, on failing to break her resistance, to punish her with banishment. In Mansfield Park, the kind of mutual deception suggested by Scott's term hidden transcripts is effectively conveyed in the way the narrative moves back and forth between internal thoughts and dramatic speech, especially in key scenes of confrontation. Scott's ideas make startlingly clear how heroic Fanny is, since the groups he examines at least know that others share their plight and their feelings. Fanny has not even one ally against the powerful united forces of Henry Crawford, Sir Thomas, and Mary Crawford: not even Lady Bertram defends Fanny's right to refuse Henry's proposal, and Edmund's betrayal of Fanny in urging her to accept Crawford against her feelings demonstrates how completely alone she is. Among the weapons of the powerless that Scott identifies are a few that Fanny Price does use. Quite often, she finds dissimulation, false compliance, or feigned ignorance necessary. But in Austen's narrative of domination and resistance, the relatively powerless Fanny is not a rule-breaker like the peasant resisters in Scott's books, where he finds that pilfering, arson, malingering, and sabotage are actually forms of political action. …" @default.
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