Episode 113: "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen, Vol. 3, Ch. 9-17
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
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šļø 16 November 2021
ā±ļø 95 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the final episode in our series covering Mansfield Park by Jane Austen here on The Literary Life podcast. Angelina, Cindy and Thomas dive right into the book chat today in order to cover as much as possible as they wrap up Fanny Price's story. Angelina brings out the parallels to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. Cindy talks about how Julia and Maria's upbringing is instructive for parents. Another topic is how, in a way, the characters continue their roles from "Lover's Vows" in real life unless they repent. Our hosts also highlight Fanny's journey toward finding a home throughout this story.
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Commonplace Quotes:
To educate means to help the human soul enter into the totality of the real.
Luigi Giussani, from the forward to Beauty for Truth's Sake
The man who is endowed with logical astuteness is very apt to keep himself in practice by taking up indefensible positions for the fun of defending them.
G. M. Young
Information can thrill, but only once.
Wendell Berry
Amoretti Sonnet XXII
by Edmund Spenser
This holy season, fit to fast and pray, Men to devotion ought to be inclin'd: Therefore I likewise on so holy day, For my sweet saint some service fit will find. Her temple fair is built within my mind, In which her glorious image placed is, On which my thoughts do day and night attend, Like sacred priests that never think amiss. There I to her as th' author of my bliss, Will build an altar to appease her ire: And on the same my heart will sacrifice, Burning in flames of pure and chaste desire: The which vouchsafe, O goddess, to accept, Amongst thy dearest relics to be kept.
Book List:
Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel's Messiah by Cindy Rollins
The Risk of Education by Luigi Giussani
Beauty for Truth's Sake by Stratford Caldecott
Daylight and Champaign by G. M. Young
A Preface to the Faerie Queene by Graham Hough
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason
Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to go. Welcome to the literary life podcast where your hosts Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins, explore a life shaped by books, |
| 0:26.4 | stories, and poetry. Each week we will rescue story from the Ivory Tower and bring it to your |
| 0:32.2 | couch, your kitchen, and your commute. |
| 0:35.0 | The literary life is for everyone because in the words of Stratford Caldecott, |
| 0:39.0 | to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello and welcome back to this final installment of Jane Austin's Mansfield Park |
| 0:52.3 | on the Literary Life podcast. I am Angela |
| 0:54.9 | Stanford and joining me as always are my two partners in crime but only one has a |
| 0:59.9 | life sentence. Welcome back, Mr Banks and Miss Rollins. |
| 1:05.8 | Good to be with you both as always. |
| 1:08.0 | Yes, thank you. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm going to leave it up to our listeners to figure out which one of you has a life sentence. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm the lucky one. All right, we have so much to talk about |
| 1:24.4 | We want to make sure we get through all of it. So we're actually going to be very careful about limiting our initial chit-chat today so we can jump right in and not not run out of time because there are so many layers and I was actually thinking this week that there's just there's so many layers that I see in this book that I haven't even mentioned on the podcast because it's just too much to cover so please don't think in any way we have exhausted the genius of Jane Austin, but hopefully we've opened up some things. |
| 1:46.0 | But there's way more that we could have covered it, you know, if we had tried to cover more. |
| 1:55.0 | The onion remains only partially unpeeled. That's exactly right. |
| 1:56.6 | So before we get in, if you've been listening to this series, |
| 2:01.0 | what is this face? |
| 2:02.0 | What is this face you're giving me right now? |
| 2:04.4 | Oh, not only we could see it. |
| 2:06.6 | Yeah, I know. |
| 2:07.7 | If you can only, yeah, right, we can't hear my face, |
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