ENGL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jean Rhys, Victorian Morality, Making Money
3 May 2016
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Narrator + friend as they watch mother burn books in father"s possession. Censorship (freedom of expression so burn = censorship) My library son = proud of inheritance. Some books treated as if they don"t have value. Reversal what we think of ppl that don"t value books. Colonial masters/ and bad husband neg. connotations - books. Book lover (mr. sawyer) = racist so book lover isn"t someone we admire. Not about wanting to destroy knowledge but destroys something connected to husband. Here= mrs. swayer see book as association to something terrible not burning anything else - just books. Hatred entire collection is sorted not all are burned. Gd looking ones (encyclopedia will be sold) and other pile = burned. Christina rossetti"s book will be burned (women who wrote books = worse. So before thought resisting colonial knowledge but now = selection principle. Burn end of those ideas + trying to contain em.
