Quote:
"While outraged fans imagined Jane Austen rolling or spinning in her grave in response to Rozema's Mansfield Park, in many ways the film's emphasis on the slavery subtext in Austen's novel was simply the logical outcome of the revisionist historiography and literary criticism of the past twenty years or so that has placed the question of slavery at the center of discussion of early nineteenth-centry British history in general and of Austen's Mansfield Park in particular, and has placed this hitherto least appreciated of her novels at the center of the Jane Austen canon."
-- Tim Watson

Source:
Watson, Tim. "Improvements and Reparations at Mansfield Park." In Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation, edited by Alessandra Raengo and Robert Stam. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. (p. 53)