Mansfield Park: A Tolerable Comfort
As some of you might know, silburygirl is a serious Austen scholar; she's doing a paper on Mansfield Park and urged me to reread it when I told her it was the one Austen novel I loathed and gave me instructions on what to look for. I did and posted a review on LibraryThing and Goodreads. Sil urged me to post the review on LJ, because she wants to see what
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I can't say rereading MP made it a favorite on the order of the other books. But it raised it from a book I hated to one I admired--well, that, and Silburygirl telling me what to look for that allowed me to look at the book with new eyes.
Mind you, I don't like Fanny the way I do the other heroines. I'd love to have Catherine ... Elinor ... Marianne ... Elizabeth ... Emma Watson (and even Emma Woodville) ... Anne and/or Charlotte over for tea. I think they'd all make good friends. Fanny I'd still back away slowly from. But I have a lot more sympathy for her and for the way she turned out second time around.
I've never really cared for that book, and thus haven't read the fanfiction.
In a way that makes it more appealing to me than say P&P for fanfiction. Fanfic imo is at its best in the road not travelled, in being somewhat critical and subversive of its author. I'm pretty happy to leave the Darcy's where we left them (And trying Berdoll, really, really left me wanting them left alone). The Crawfords and the Bertrams otoh...
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