《曼斯菲尔德庄园》的宗教维度

将范妮、埃德蒙等人物分析和小说主旨联系起来，并借助当时英国的宗教背景和奥斯丁传记材料，探求《曼斯菲尔德庄园》的宗教意涵。《曼斯菲尔德庄园》算不上“福音主义小说”，只是较为温和地回应了英国19世纪初的福音主义运动。奥斯丁并非道德论者，而是小说家，且信仰问题在当时还没有成为一般小说主题，不宜详细讨论。奥斯丁笔下的年轻牧师，往往作为情人去扮演世俗角色；对于牧师的描绘，也多限于社会和家庭生活，并未有意识地深入探究牧师的宗教思想。

The Religious Dimension in Mansfield Park

The religious dimension in Mansfield Park may be best appreciated by combining character analysis and discussion of the themes, and also by examining the contemporary religious context of England and biographical facts about Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is not an evangehcal novel, but only a moderate response to the ideas and conduct manifested by Evangelical zealots in the first decade of the 19th century. As a novelist, especially a novelist writing before the problems of belief came to be themes in fiction, Austen treated her young clergymen as lovers in their social and secular roles, confining her portraits to their social and domestic lives, without going further in delving into their personal religious concerns.