No Sex Please - We're Post-Human!

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Feb 13 19:11:05 PST 2001


Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>
> > >And then, what does Mansfield Park have to do with this?
> >
> >Ain't Fanny's dependence on her fickle saviours kinda central to MP's plot?
> >Unlike the other relationships alluded to in the book, the relationship
> >that ultimately causes Fanny's coming and going is a hierarchical
> >relationship. Class, no? Where's the fun bit?
>
> That's my question... what's pleasurable about dependence as articulated in MP?
>
> Catherine

A rather dumb reading of MP.

Carrol



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