ENGL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Control Flow, Didacticism, Eliza Haywood
15 Sep 2016
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*next week"s homework: read jane eyre to end of body 1 (through. Chapter 15), body 2 by weds (through chapter 26), body 3 (rest of book) Fantomina: or, love in a maze by: eliza haywood. Kept changing who she was to try to conform to an idea of femininity and what she should want. Had a lot of power and control over what she was doing. Character was malicious and devious- was able to transform 4 times to seduce a man she wanted. Women were forbidden to talk about sex in victorian england. Supposed to be virtuous and conform to social norms to retain their. Couldn"t know anything about sex at all- but at same time supposed to get married and have children. Huge word in 18th century- meant different things for men vs women. For men= worthy, honest, fair, good, used to mean aristocratic. For women= virtue- being a virgin, or chaste and loyal to husband if married.
