Book on Christian humanism in literature includes chapter on “Mansfield Park”
The Tablet (U.K.) reviews the book Who Are We Now? by Nicholas Boyle, a professor at the University of Cambridge, which includes a chapter on Mansfield Park.
In Mansfield Park how the Crawfords behave in church, in contrast with Fanny and Edmund, reveals their lack of “principle”: “the church is principle made visible, principle given a name and a face” – “even the church of Jane Austen’s early nineteenth-century England, a prey to rationalism and neglect”.
