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 19th 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 18th- and
19th-century etiquette books, moral treatises, histories of women,
legal documents and commentary, 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, historical, social, and cultural context
of the novel. Each section of this casebook contains study
questions, topics for research papers and class discussions, and
lists of further reading for examining the issues raised by the
novel. The plot of Pride and Prejudice turns on three aspects of
early 19th-century English society: marriage as a social
institution, inheritance laws and customs, and acceptable roles for
women. Following a literary analysis of the novel, the casebook
contains documents and commentary on the following topics:
inheritance and marriage laws and customs, 18th-century views on
marriage, the status of unmarried women, women's education and
moral training, and issues in the 1980s and 1990s that can be
contrasted with those in the novel. These documents illustrate the
social and legal differences between Austen's time and our own that
enable the reader to fully understand the archaicdetails of the
novel. They also indicate the continuities between Austen's time
and ours in their emphases on love, marriage, the importance of
property, and arguments about the role of women. Among the
documents are excerpts from Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, William
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, advice from a mother to her absent
daughters, and a number of letters on the "proper" role of women,
their education, and moral training. The final chapter of this book
brings into focus the relevancies of Austen's fiction to present
day readers and provides discussion of many of the issues of the
novel as they are handled by law and the media at the end of the
20th century. This is an ideal companion for teacher use and
student research in interdisciplinary, English history, and English
literature courses.
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