Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. Mansfield Park shows Austen as a mature novelist with an almost unparalleled ability to render character and an acute awareness of her world and how it was changing.

Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations-from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory-as well as a bibliography and, in most cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

This book contains a motivating range of communicative activities based around authentic and semi-authentic listenings for Intermediate to Advanced level students.

Topics range from mobile phones, moral dilemmas and addictions to finding the perfect partner and football hooliganism. All activities are supported by comprehensive teaching notes with pre- and post-listening suggestions. Select the activity you require by topic, function and listening skill.

Pragmatic Stylistics

* The first pragmatically oriented study of the language of fictional texts.
* Introduces a range of pragmatic theories and offers a range of approaches that can be applied to texts.
* Includes examples from literary texts, predominantly from the twentieth century - unlike many works on pragmatics which use invented examples.