ENGL 3207H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 2016 Nfl Draft, Captivity Narrative, Desroches Island
23 Feb 2016
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Draft notes for the history of emily montague. As we talked about last week, thoem is something of a puzzle a sentimental novel set in a newly conquered territory. We have britain taking stock of its new prize, trying to figure out how to accommodate subjects of french extraction within its expanding empire. Madame desroches falls in love with our colonial hero col. rivers and seems to presage intermarriage cross-cultural contact. Exactly the kind of romanticized representation of the british consolidation of power in what was formerly new france that we still reproduce to a certain extent in our history books. This is a text that is distinguished by what it omits no conflict, no danger of the sort that was commonly found in novels set in north america. No captivity narrative fueled by abduction, no heroine lost in the woods, no necessity of eking out a survival in a harsh climate.
