HUM 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Protestantism, Rockbound, Romanticism
4 Mar 2016
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Mary: economic control over her own life: speaks in a polished/urban diction. Rockbound dialect: skeert: scared , bimeby: bye and bye , t"ick: thick . Romanticized image of rural nova scotia: colourful accents, wedding (mary & casper) Fiddle playing, dancing: superstitious, holistic technologies. Unceasing battles of male adventurers against sea. Ballads in rockbound: recent ballads by gresham. Day"s folk are active shapers, not passive recipients of tradition: rockbound is a changing world (slowly or not) Children from opposing families interacting with each other. Anapest changes her mind in the end and tells mary to marry. Most characters don"t seem to have nostalgia for old technology differs from mackay"s description of folk . Gemeinscheft tranquil, ideal society bound together by tradition, custom & faith (vs. mineshaft) rockbound has some of these qualities] Ethnic background of rockbound: some jewish, most german. British government had a strategy of funneling migrants from protestant parts of europe in oppressed areas to nova scotia (germany)
