ENGL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lumpenproletariat, Bushranger, Compeyson
1 Aug 2018
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Week 9 the forger"s wife by john lang. Novels: the first novel with three contenders: robinson crusoe by daniel defoe, pamela by samuel. The forger"s wife: chapter 1-7: england, chapter 8-37: australia, 8-20, flower in or around sydney, 21-30 flower outside of sydney, 31-32, flower in sydney, reginald still assigned to emily, 33-37, reginald at large, then dead, chapter 38-40: england. Australian novel: published in england first, then australia. The importance of the colonies: george flower had a lot of interaction with the indigenous community. John lang: not quite located in any one nation: a child of colonialism in a sense. Distinctions: serialisation vs published in book form, serialised pickwick papers, serialisation took off. Engl10002 literature and performance: serialisation rewards prolixity (likes to talk, but is realy boring, popular fiction vs "serious" fiction, the importance of interiority (more so in "serious", action vs social commentary, the distinctions aren"t so clear cut.
