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Symbol, Allegory, and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Symbol, Allegory, and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park <p>Abstract:</p><p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s <i>The Statesman’s Manual</i> distinguishes between symbol and allegory, and the distinction reveals what is at stake in <i>Mansfield Park</i>. Austen alludes to the country house tradition that empowers Edmund Burke’s counterrevolutionary rhetoric, but the persistence of allegory in the novel produces anti-Burkean insights. <i>Mansfield Park</i> also challenges Paul de Man’s famous reading of Coleridge: while de Man’s essay “The Rhetoric of Temporality” labors to discriminate between tropes, Austen sometimes blurs tropes and dramatizes the precariousness of a political order dependent on them. Yet de Man’s study of Romantic tropes sheds light on the non-realistic aspects of Austen’s novel.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Philology University of North Carolina Press

Symbol, Allegory, and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Normandin, Shawn
Studies in Philology , Volume 116 (3) – Jul 8, 2019
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<p>Abstract:</p><p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s <i>The Statesman’s Manual</i> distinguishes between symbol and allegory, and the distinction reveals what is at stake in <i>Mansfield Park</i>. Austen alludes to the country house tradition that empowers Edmund Burke’s counterrevolutionary rhetoric, but the persistence of allegory in the novel produces anti-Burkean insights. <i>Mansfield Park</i> also challenges Paul de Man’s famous reading of Coleridge: while de Man’s essay “The Rhetoric of Temporality” labors to discriminate between tropes, Austen sometimes blurs tropes and dramatizes the precariousness of a political order dependent on them. Yet de Man’s study of Romantic tropes sheds light on the non-realistic aspects of Austen’s novel.</p>

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Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jul 8, 2019

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