Seeking with Henry Crawford to enter the park at Sotherton, Maria Bertram tells the man with whom she will later commit adultery: ‘unluckily that iron gate, that ha-ha, give me a feeling of restraint and hardship. I cannot get out, as the starling said’.1¹ Maria is quoting Sterne’s Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.2² John Wiltshire, a recent editor of Mansfield Park, discusses the abruptness of Maria’s reference: One effect of its eruption is to require or force the reader to supply a context that the context of the novel itself seems to assume…. The bird’s cry (as disconcerting in Sterne’s text as Maria’s here) reminds him that however one makes up one’s mind to endure imprisonment, its suffering is intolerable…. The effect is to make her speech sound not like the outburst of a selfish and petulant woman, but like the cry of all women caught in what might be defined as patriarchal society, but might equally well here be called her fate.3³

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'正如八哥所说'：在简·奥斯汀的曼斯菲尔德公园引用劳伦斯·斯特恩的话

为了与亨利克劳福德一起进入索瑟顿的公园，玛丽亚伯特伦告诉她后来与之通奸的男人：“不幸的是，那个铁门，那个哈哈，给我一种克制和困难的感觉。正如八哥所说，我无法脱身。1 ¹玛丽亚引用了斯特恩的《穿越法国和意大利的感伤之旅》。2 ²约翰·威尔特希尔，曼斯菲尔德公园的新任编辑，讨论了玛丽亚引用的突然性：它爆发的一个影响是要求或迫使读者提供小说本身似乎假设的上下文……。鸟的叫声（在斯特恩的文本中和玛丽亚在这里一样令人不安）提醒他，无论一个人下定决心要忍受监禁，它的痛苦都是无法忍受的……。其效果是让她的讲话听起来不像是一个自私和任性的女人的爆发，而是像所有陷入可能被定义为父权社会的女人的哭声，但在这里同样可以被称为她的命运。^{3 3}