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"Patricia Rozema's brilliantly tendentious film of Mansfield Park (1999) reflects an awareness not only of postcolonial criticism that has implicated the novel in issues of slavery but of gender criticism that has discovered alternative sexual possibilities in her novels. Perhaps it is their responsiveness to multiple ideological demands, rather than their achievement of universal truths transcending culture and period, that makes her novels classic."
-- Alistair M. Duckworth

Source:
Duckworth, Alistair M. "A Critical History of Emma." In Emma: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical Perspectives , by Jane Austen. Edited by Alistair M. Duckworth. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. New York: Palgrave, 2002. (p. 420)