ENGL1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Abel Magwitch, Separate Spheres, Inbreeding
Week 10 Lecture – Great Expectations
Subjectivity:
• Who am I?
• Identity – gender, class, race, sexuality
• Individual, autonomous self
• How does the body shape the life I can claim?
Changes over time:
• Early modern
o Dramatic from is dominant
o God and sovereignty
o Who else can rule me?
o Self can create itself
o Limited by factors outside control
• Romantic:
o Lyric poetry
o Revolutions – active change and revolt does not subside
o Self can shape itself
o Inward self – posed against a wider outside community
o Helps the self, understand itself
• 19th/ bourgeois:
o Novel
o Industrial Revo, rise of British imperial power
o Rise of middle-class
o Seem as a larger empire, instead of small
o Working class excess
o Self can shape itself, often against community
o Greater sense of middle-class subjectivity
o Most suited to modern conditions
Bourgeois:
• Caple of self-control, discipline and hard work
• Companionate marriage – achieving full adulthood
• Distinction between public and private selves
John Jordan article:
• Narrative reconstruction of selfhood
• Come together to make a whole
• At time may not have felt so
• Subjectivity tied to selfhood
• Story is selfhood
Gender:
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