ENGL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Demonlover, Mudrock, Ground Sloth
1 Aug 2018
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Impatiently waiting for the "infant bud of life to bloom" A woman"s body is a political allegory for brittania: pain(e) squeezing the body of britain with the rights of man. Vindication o the rights of woman by mary wollstonecraft: hated the corseting of young girls when boys were allowed to run around and play. Coleridge 1772-1834: boy genius, opium addict, wrote while stoned, but also wrote about the horrors after, coleridge was kind of ugly but he as he would talk, he would (cid:373)es(cid:373)erise! And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, And here were forests ancient as the hills, But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted. Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! As e"er be(cid:374)eath a wa(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)oo(cid:374) was hau(cid:374)ted. Engl10002 literature and performance notes: "a woman wailing for her demon-lover, like eve - wailing for the snake, or a vampire figure (but before the first vampire story, think it was written in 1797.
