Understanding Fanny: A Comparison of the Psalmists to Fanny Price of Austen’s Mansfield Park
Though there has been recent interest in how Jane Austen’s faith influenced her novels, scholars have generally looked to her reading in philosophy and sermons, her spiritual expression, or her Anglicanism, and have neglected the more direct influence of the Bible. Yet judging from Austen’s lifelong...
| Publié dans: | Religion and the arts |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Religion and the arts
Année: 2020, Volume: 24, Numéro: 3, Pages: 229-245 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Price, Fanny, Personnage fictif
/ Exil
/ Bibel. Psalmen
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Spiritualité chrétienne HA Bible KBF Îles britanniques |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Psalms
B Bible B Jane Austen B Fanny Price B Traumatisme B Anglicanism B Exile B Mansfield Park |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | Though there has been recent interest in how Jane Austen’s faith influenced her novels, scholars have generally looked to her reading in philosophy and sermons, her spiritual expression, or her Anglicanism, and have neglected the more direct influence of the Bible. Yet judging from Austen’s lifelong church attendance and her reading of the Book of Common Prayer, we can conclude that she would have heard the Psalms read entirely through once every month of her forty-one years. This paper explores the resemblance between the psalmists and Fanny Price in terms of their shared experience of exile, their patterns of lament and reminder, their long wait for deliverance, and their final homecoming. Comparing Fanny Price’s character to the psalmists recasts her as a heroine in the Hebrew tradition, offering a new understanding of her passivity and suggesting that her author was more influenced by scriptural patterns than has been heretofore understood. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02403010 |