The Jane Austen Season The Jane Austen Season The Jane Austen Season is a British television series of dramas based on novels by Jane Austen. The season began on ITV at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 18 March 2007, with "Mansfield Park". The following week, "Northanger Abbey" was aired. The season ended with the airing of "Persuasion" on Sunday 1 April 2007. A repeat of the 1996 feature-length film "Emma" was broadcast on Friday 6 April 2007. The combined ITV and BBC series was shown in the United States by the PBS Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology television series from January through March 2008. The following
Styles and themes of Jane Austen "Mansfield Park" and "Persuasion" are the novels most often cited as examples of Austen's growing religiosity. For example, "Persuasion" "is subtly different from the laxer, more permissive social atmosphere of the three novels Jane Austen began before 1800." and contains more frequent references to Providence. In "Mansfield Park", Fanny stands for spirituality and proper morality. It is she who most clearly characterizes Henry Crawford's affair with Maria in religious terms, in the language of sin, guilt and punishment. She is portrayed as an earnest, strict and struggling Christian, not perfect but trying hard. Since the rise of feminist literary criticism