Quote:
"A box-ofice disappointment after the string of Austen hits, Mansfield Park represents the definitive internationalisation of the Austen franchise beyond the British heritage aesthetics. It is also the most reflexive film in the Austen cycle. In Mansfield Park, the stylisation of the mise-en-scène articulates a discourse on the past that is divided between the reenactment of the pleasures of the romance narrative, and their ironic rewriting."
-- Belén Vidal

Source:
Vidal, Belén. "Playing in a Minor Key: The Literary Past through the Feminist Imagination." In Books in Motion: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship, edited by Mireia Aragay. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. (p. 271)