id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vjcxmis4brf5lgui3eazsexu74 Roberta Grandi "What was done there is not to be told!" Plans for improvement and designs for ruin in Austen's Sotherton Court 2012 21 .pdf application/pdf 9138 556 72 nonetheless, from the point of view of the critic, Mansfield Park offers matchless elements for study and analysis as, by overturning the usual characterization of the protagonists, the novel evidences more clearly the unchanged system of values of austen's narrative. treatment of landscape gardening and improvement work in Mansfield Park, focusing improvement planned or performed can be interpreted either as signs of moral improvement or of excess: "Throughout Jane austen's fiction, estates function not only as the settings of action but as indexes to the character and social responsibility of their owners"9. see also a.m. duckworth, Mansfield Park and Estate Improvements: Jane Austen's atmosphere of the chapel: maria bertram and henry crawford feel an evident disquietude at being in the place in which the former's marriage with rushworth will part them ./cache/work_vjcxmis4brf5lgui3eazsexu74.pdf ./txt/work_vjcxmis4brf5lgui3eazsexu74.txt