The Progress of Vegetation: Subversion and Vegetarianism in Mansfield Park

Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

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Pages:: 19–51

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401209991_004

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Over the course of Austen’s novel, Fanny Price, a woman simultaneously plant-like and gardener-esque, transforms Mansfield Park—the seat of a family destabilized by the violence of the slave trade and, eventually, the carnal appetites of its spoiled children—with what might best be described as the passive promotion of vegetarian values. When considered alongside such commonplace terms as “cornfield” or “hayfield,” the name “Mansfield” evokes the dystopian image of a plot where men, the most valuable of beasts, are cultivated for consumption, but Fanny adheres to both Enlightenment and Romantic vegetarian principles, quietly asserting the superiority of the vegetal over the carnal and, concomitantly, the centrality of plants to civilized living.

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Plants and Literature

Essays in Critical Plant Studies

Series: Critical Plant Studies, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401209991

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2013

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