《傲慢与偏见》解读

Introduction1．Literary Analysis：Pride and Prejudice2．Law and Custom：Inheritance and Marriage　FROM：　George C．Brodrick，English Land and English　Landlords(1881)　Sir William Blackstone，Commentaries on the　Laws of England(1765)　William Alexander，The History of Women from　the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)　Sir Frederick Ponock and Frederic Wmiam　Maitland,Tbe History of English Law Before the　Time ofEdward I(1898)3．Eighteenth—Century Views of Marriage　FROM：

Introduction1．Literary Analysis：Pride and Prejudice2．Law and Custom：Inheritance and Marriage　FROM：　George C．Brodrick，English Land and English　Landlords(1881)　Sir William Blackstone，Commentaries on the　Laws of England(1765)　William Alexander，The History of Women from　the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)　Sir Frederick Ponock and Frederic Wmiam　Maitland,Tbe History of English Law Before the　Time ofEdward I(1898)3．Eighteenth—Century Views of Marriage　FROM：　Samuel Johnson，The Rambler(1750)　Daniel Defoe，Conjugal Lewdness(1727)　John Gregory，A Father's Legacy to His Daughters(1774)　Lady Sarah Pennington，An Unfortunate Mother's　Advice to Her Absent Daughters(1761)　Thomas Gisborne，An Enquiry into the Duties of　the Female Sex(1797)　William Godwin，Enquiry Concerning Political　Justice(1793)　Mary Wollstonecraft，Maria,or The Wrongs of　Woman(1798)4．Unmarried Women：Conduct and Law　FRoM：　William Hayley，A Philosophical,Historical,and　Moral Essay on old Maids(1785)　Jane west，Letters to a Young Lady(1806)　Mary WoUstonecrkft．Thoughts on the Education　of Daughters(1787)　Mary WoUstonecraft，A Vindication of the eights　of Woman(1792)　Wmiam Alexander．The History of Women from　the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)5．Women’S Education and Moral Conduct　FRoM：　William Alexander，The History of Women from　the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)　Hester Chapone，On the Improvement of the　Mind(17700　Lady Sarah Pennington，An Unfortunate Mother's　Advice to Her Absent Daughters(1761)　Jane West，Letters to a Young Lady(1806)　Catherine Macaulay Graham，Letters on Education(1790)6．Pride and Prejudice：Issues in the l980s and 1990sIndex

This iS the onlY book about Pride and Prejudice to combine both analysis of the novel and excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen’S OWn time These materials will help the reader to understand the complexities of both the novel and English society at the beginning of the l9th century，and tO compare those issues to contemporary．society．Teachman provides commentary and primary materialS On inheritance．marriage，and women’S roles in society at the time of Austen’S life．Excerpts from l 8th—and l 9th—century etiquette books，moral treatises、histories of women．1egal documents and comrnentary。newspapers，magazines，and collections of letters provide evidence of the social and legal differences between Austen’S time and our own--enabling the reader tO understand the legal，historic',d，social．and cultural context of the nova．