维多利亚时期是一个公认的道德标准严肃的年代,这个时期的小说大多带有道德意味和道德目的。乔治·艾略特是英国维多利亚时期的著名女作家,其作品再现了维多利亚时期的英国乡村生活画面和乡村传统伦理。在她的创作中,有一个主题始终未变,那就是对乡村传统伦理道德的关注与阐释。本文主要分析《织工马南传》中的乡土伦理,从而使读者对维多利亚时代英国的乡村有更深刻的理解。乔治·艾略特与英国乡村文学是一种审美活动,既具有审美功能,也具有道德伦理教化功能。“伦理学是一门关于道德的科学,或者说,伦理学是以道德作为自己的研究对象的科学。”[1]文学与伦理学的结合催生了将作品置于作家创作时所处时代的伦理环境中进行批评的文学伦理学批评。作为一种批评方式的文学伦理学批评由华中师范大学聂珍钊教授于2004年首次明确提出:“文学伦理学批评是一种文学批评方法,主要用于从伦理的立场解读、分析和阐释文学作品、研究作家以及与文学[2] Victorian period is a serious era of recognized moral standards. Most of the novels in this period were moral and moral. George Eliot is a famous British Victorian woman writer, his work reproduces Victorian life in rural areas and traditional British rural ethics. In her writing, one theme has remained unchanged, that is, the concern and interpretation of the traditional ethics of the country. This article mainly analyzes the local ethics in The Weaver Biography of Ma Nan, so that the readers have a deeper understanding of the Victorian England countryside. George Eliot and English country literature are aesthetic activities, which not only have the aesthetic function but also the moral and ethical enlightenment function. ”Ethics is a science about morality, or ethics is the science that uses morality as its object of study.“ [1] The combination of literature and ethics gives birth to the work to be placed at the time of author’s creation Literary Ethics Criticism in the Era of Ethical Times. As a criticism of literary ethics criticism by the Central China Normal University Professor Nie Zhenzhao for the first time in 2004 made clear: ”Literary ethics criticism is a literary criticism method, mainly for interpretation from the ethical position, analysis and interpretation of literary works , Research writer as well as with literature [2]