ENGLISH 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Stout, Class Discrimination, Gout

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3EC3
• Professor: Prof.Mc Kendry

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It is moving towards romantic poetry-> inward is temporal now. He is trying to create his own temporality. He is accepting what he knows and the situation he is in now and how it temporally is arranged. He is cheerful and smiling even though he is in the dungeon. Projecting a trajectory-> this is what thelwall does-> (cid:498)retrospective(cid:499) No exactly equivalent tern for modern (cid:498)disability(cid:499), and no sharp binary between (cid:498)able- bodied(cid:499) and (cid:498)disabled(cid:499) More (cid:498)progressive(cid:499) attitudes (cid:523)tolerance, acceptance, accommodation(cid:524) anchored is rising discourses of (cid:498)sensibility(cid:499) and (cid:498)politeness(cid:499) Christian devaluation of autonomy (cid:523)and its attendant normalization of (cid:498)disability(cid:499)(cid:524) the foundations for modern conception of (cid:498)disability(cid:499) (cid:523)corporeal (cid:498)normalcy(cid:499) taking at odds with persistent popular cruelty. Ascendency of industrial capitalism, medical discourse, and secular autonomy laid. Politeness and good manners-> rich-> treat disabled people better. Uncouth and bad mannered-> poor-> treat disabled people terribly form in the nineteenth century) Hay is one of the most classist works of the course.