Deidre Shauna Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Harvard University.
Belknap’s recently released annotated Mansfield Park, edited by
[Deidre Shauna] Lynch, is a 532-page, colour-illustrated tour de
force.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This is a coffee-table book that folks—Austen fans in
particular—will actually read.
*Star Tribune*
Lynch here makes Austen’s most divisive novel accessible,
intriguing, and beautiful. She strikes a deft balance between
information and analysis in her notes and with supporting documents
that lend historical depth to the edition, while also linking the
narrative to popular culture… With this edition, readers will want
to stay with these characters for as long as possible.
*Library Journal (starred review)*
Deidre Lynch’s edition of Mansfield Park weaves critical debate
into an engaging argument about the subtlety and complexity of
Fanny Price’s character. The annotations are unfailingly lucid and
succinct, calculated to stimulate both imagination and thought.
*Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of Virginia*
Austenites will want to own this edition of Mansfield Park because
they have previously been frustrated or maddened by the novel, and
because they want to understand how and why to like it, how to get
more out of it, how to comprehend its place within Austen’s oeuvre.
We are all lucky to find a scholar and critic of Deidre Lynch’s
caliber as an editor and guide.
*Katie Trumpener, Yale University*
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