The Courtship Novel 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre. Green considers Mansfield Park a courtship novel, including it in a list of such novels in the period 1740-1820 (163–64). See Green, especially 1-7, and also Hinnant, for further description and discussion of the courtship novel.
Often the heroine and her eventual husband are kept apart initially by misunderstanding, by the hero’s misguided attraction to another, by financial obstacles, or by family objections. According to Katherine Sobba Green, the courtship novel “detailed a young woman’s entrance into society, the problems arising from that situation, her courtship, and finally her choice (almost always fortunate) among suitors” (2). In this regard it seems to fit into the genre of the courtship novel, a form, popular in the eighteenth century, in which the plot is driven by the heroine’s difficulties in attracting an offer from the proper suitor. Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park begins and ends with the topic of marriage. In general, they should be used only when you need to justify or clarify what you have written or when further amplification of your point is especially helpful. Content NotesĬontent notes offer the reader comment, explanation, or information that the text can’t accommodate. These may be styled either as footnotes or endnotes.
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