March 06, 2016 05:28AM | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,149 |
Some people consider slavery a major theme of Mansfield Park, but really, it too is subtext at best. Sir Thomas has plantations in Jamaica which he must go visit, and Fanny later asks him a question about the slave trade. Some feel that the implication is that the "real" problem with Mansfield Park is that it is founded on slave money, and that's why everything goes awry there. Maybe, but it's not stated directly anywhere.
It's very true that we're used to reading historical fiction by more recent authors, who will take time to describe various aspects of life at the time for the benefit of their readers, but Jane, of course, didn't feel like she needed to explain those things. And Jane famously only wrote about things she had personal experience with, which cuts out whole swaths of potential subject matter.
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