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Subject:
RE: [NABOKV-L] The Connected Enchanted Hunters of Mansfield
Park & L_o_l_i_t_a |
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From:
"Hyman, Eric" <ehyman@uncfsu.edu> |
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Date:
8/31/2015 8:05 AM |
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To:
'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> |
Dear
List:
This
seems to me to be a stretch. Certainly amateur theatricals are
central to Mansfield Park, but are they central enough to
L----- to constitute an allusion? One might just as well
argue that L----- alludes to the amateur theatricals in
Shakespeare’s
Midsummer Night’s Dream—for those actually take place in
the woods, are more explicitly sexual, have the tragic death of
a young woman, and, most of all, have enchantments. We know
that Nabokov, like all educated Russians, was deeply interested
in Shakespeare because Bend Sinister has a parody of Hamlet.
Eric Hyman
Professor
of English
Department
of English
Butler
133
Fayetteville
State University
1200
Murchison Road
Fayetteville,
NC 28301-4252
(910)
672-1901
From:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU]
On Behalf Of Arnie Perlstein
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 2:37 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] The Connected Enchanted Hunters of
Mansfield Park & L_o_l_i_t_a
This is a followup to my two recent posts about
heretofore undiscovered veiled allusions in Nabokov’s L_o_l_i_t_a:
first, the covert theme of the sexual abuse of Fanny Price in Jane
Austen’s *Mansfield Park *symbolized by Mrs. Norris accusing Fanny
of scandalously “lolling