How can Austen's Mansfield Park be read within the New Historicist argument suggested by Stephen Greenblatt; the ideological paradigm where there is no room for dissent? Or how can Austen herself be understood either as a novelist or as a historian, especially with her great role in nation building, according to the definition of a nation suggested by Homi Bhabha? While Richard Allen's emphasis the complex symbolic in the literary works that propagate specific ideological structures (Allen. 11), Greenblatt's argument will offer a good turn of explaining the Austen's attempt of implanting an important concept such as morality which is the based in constructing her England in mind by using specific motifs as [including, but not limited
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Furthermore, Mansfield Park's heroine, Fanny Price who developed positively from a passive character controlled by Austen from a very unprivileged background social-class into the mistress of the refine and treatment institution of Mansfield Park, is analyzed as a micro model stands for the macro level; the Great Britain, which reveals "the subtle relation between Austen and Imperialism" (Xu and Li, 185) since Fanny described by her moral cousin Edmund that she is the only person who never made any mistakes, further no one can blame her "we have all been more or less blame… everyone of us, excepting Fanny" (Austen, 174). Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism offers an excellent clarification for the 19th century English novels as an accomplice to Empire, while Tony Tanner reveals, in "Original Penguin Classics Introduction" of the novel itself, the using of symbolism towards the controlling ideas that the novel intended to
Furthermore, Mansfield Park's heroine, Fanny Price who developed positively from a passive character controlled by Austen from a very unprivileged background social-class into the mistress of the refine and treatment institution of Mansfield Park, is analyzed as a micro model stands for the macro level; the Great Britain, which reveals "the subtle relation between Austen and Imperialism" (Xu and Li, 185) since Fanny described by her moral cousin Edmund that she is the only person who never made any mistakes, further no one can blame her "we have all been more or less blame… everyone of us, excepting Fanny" (Austen, 174). Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism offers an excellent clarification for the 19th century English novels as an accomplice to Empire, while Tony Tanner reveals, in "Original Penguin Classics Introduction" of the novel itself, the using of symbolism towards the controlling ideas that the novel intended to