ENGL303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Travel Literature, Ender Wiggin
22 Aug 2018
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Book review: next assessment: bit creative, format doesn"t matter. Lecture structure: diversity and the novel recent discussions, race and the novel, racial dynamics in the people in the trees , empathy and the novel: martha nussbaum. Diversity and novels: race, gender, sexuality, ability (e. g. disability, these categories of disadvantage intersect. Diversity in the curriculum: not one women studied in yale novel unit > led to protest, objected to the focus exclusively on white male poets etc, when you"re studying 17th to 18th century, mostly studying men. Whether the intent was to supply fresh adventures and exotic marvels or merely real facts about a real world, [novelists] hoped to be more successful with their attempts at illusion, at local colour, at parodying unbelievable, or believable travels. It was, then, a well-developed tradition that the eighteenth-century authors of the new" novel accepted and continued to improve upon percy. Adams, travel literature and the evolution of the novel (lexington: university of kentucky.
