Title: Understanding Pride and prejudice : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents /
Authors: Teachman, Debra, 1955-
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Austen, Jane, Sources.; Austen, Jane, Examinations Study guides.; Literature and history England History Sources.
Abstract: "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. Teachman provides commentary and primary materials on inheritance, marriage, and women's roles in English society at the beginning of the 19th century. Excerpts from 18th- and 19th-century etiquette guides, 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 era and our own - enabling the reader to understand the legal, historical, social, and cultural contexts 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."--Jacket.
Contents: Literary analysis: Pride and prejudice -- 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 Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, The history of English law before the time of Edward I (1898) -- Eighteenth-Century views of marriage: From: Samuel Johnson, The rambler (1750) -- Daniel Defoe, Conjugal lewdness (1727) -- John Gregory, 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) -- 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 Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the education of daughters (1787) -- Mary Wollstonecraft, A vindication of the rights of woman (1792) -- William Alexander, The history of women from the earliest antiquity, to the present time (1779) -- 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 (1770?) -- 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) -- Pride and prejudice: Issues in the 1980s and 1990s.