Mansfield Park: Improvement

Synopsis: Stresses the visual elements and the social historical context of the novel. The theme of ‘improvement’ is illustrated in terms of the then fashionable doctrine of redressing the balance between art and nature in favour of the latter, and this process is compared to the relationships of some of the characters in the novel.
Series: Nineteenth-Century Novel and Its Legacy, Course A312
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.
Year of production: 1983
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Fiction in English; novelists

Cast

Cicely Palser Havely
John Dixon Hunt

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