Re: [Marxism] Pride & Prejudice

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Shannon wrote:
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>  >
> Louis could have said more about Edward Said's comments on Mansfield
> Park, in my opinion one of Austen's less successful works although
> one that improves on rereading, had he seen the movie Mansfield Park.
> This is an excellent movie that shares some of Edward Said's outlook.

With immense respect to Said, nevertheless his account of _Mansfield
Park_, Austen's greatest novel, and perhaps the greatest novel in
English, was very nearly pure horseshit. (See Susan Fraiman, "Jane
Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism," Critical
Inquiry, Summer95, Vol. 21 Issue 4, for a severe critique of Said's
account.) The lens through which one can _begin_ to see the power of MP
is Aunt Norris, a towering figure of evil, who systematically corrupts,
blocks, twists every human relationship which she touches. Iago is a
mischievous boy scout in comparison.

Carrol

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