The Gothic in Mansfield Park

My fifth paper, written on Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

"Her later novel, Mansfield Park, is an amalgamation of many genres and in the end, can be defined by none; one of these genres, however, is very definitely the Gothic. Mansfield Park is more profoundly a Gothic novel than Northanger Abbey ever is. Although the Gothic is never acknowledged directly, it seems that, contrary to her character’s declaration, Austen has decided that it is indeed a relevant style to depicting the lives of the gentry in England."