Table of Contents

Acknowledgements The Text of the Novel Introduction 'Have you read Mansfield Park?': Contemporary Opinions of the Novel 'It has not however that elevation of virtue': Reviews from the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century Dear Jane: Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Writing and the Rise of 'Janeism' 'The first modern novel in England': New Critical and Structuralist Analyses of the Mid-Twentieth Century The Anniversary: Criticism of the 1970s and 1980s The Improvement of the Estate: Late Twentieth-Century and Early Twenty-First Century Readings 'Have you seen Mansfield Park?': Adaptations on Film and Television Select Bibliography Further Reading Index.

About the Author

Sandie Byrne is Reader in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. She was previously Fellow in English at Balliol College, Oxford, UK.