Quote:
"Itself a 'heritage piece', with all the accessories of the genre, beautiful cinematography, elegant costumes, sweeping panoramas, and the obligatory ball, the film [Mansfield Park] seeks to modify, perhaps contest, the genre from within."
-- John Wiltshire
Source:
Wiltshire, John. Recreating Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
(p. 135)