Fanny Price: Jane Austen's Feminist Experiment [abstract]
Abstract
The essay was written in the capstone, The Late, Great Jane Austen in the fall of 2006. The basic premise of the essay is that in considering the time period in which Austen was writing and a particular character in Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, Jane Austen had feminist tendencies. Inherent within the essay is a feminist literary reading of Mansfield Park.