ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, The Flapper
22 Aug 2018
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Lecture outline: context/women"s suffrage/ the flapper, zelda fitzgerald + dorothy parker, autonomy, gender in literature, techniques you can use to read for gender, close reading example the waltz. Women"s suffrage: suffrage the right to vote in political elections, suffragette/suffragist a women seeking the right to vote through organised protest, women"s suffrage and what we would ultimately call 1st wave feminism, ongoing issue. The flapper": a new" woman, unconventional dress + behaviour, not ladylike"/ traditional, bobbed hair and short skirt, believed in fun over duty, embodied the changing times, freedom for women to express themselves, fashionable at the time. Zelda fitzgerald: 1900 - 1948, the original flapper", high society southern belle, f. scott fitzgerald. Eng120: fictional counterparts in her husbands writings daisy (the great gatsby, writer, artist, ballerina, had great publicity, but always connected to f. scott fitzgerald; always secondary to events of his career.
