Discipline, Resistance and Self-Improvement: Three Phases in the Growth of Fanny Price

Yingying DENG; Joan Qionglin TAN

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Discipline, Resistance and Self-Improvement: Three Phases in the Growth of Fanny Price

Yingying DENG, Joan Qionglin TAN

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 4)

Received: 20 July 2014 Accepted: 31 July 2014 Published: 10 August 2014

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Abstract

Fanny Price is a remarkable heroine of Mansfield Park written by Jane Austen. Based on Michel Foucault’s power theory and the related theories about subjectivity construction, this paper aims at analyzing how Fanny tries to adopt, resist and make the most of the underlying various power mechanisms in a patriarchal society and how she achieves her own self-education and self-improvement. It contends that through three phases of discipline, resistance and self-improvement, Fanny successfully transforms herself from an inferior “outsider” into a noble and elegant lady welcomed by the middle class in British society in the early 19th century.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20140204.16
Page(s)	123-129
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fanny Price, Mansfield Park, Michel Foucault, Disciplinary Power, Technologies of the Self

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Yingying DENG

College of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Joan Qionglin TAN

College of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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