ENGL 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stowaway, George Lamming, British Literature
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This book asks us how the mother country/english novel takes root. The english novel helps consolidate the individual as the base unit of society. Man wants hot woman, r = fancy clothing to help him be noticed by the woman. Perhaps sometimes s desires r though and o is the mediating midpoint - these two are interchangeable. Man wants homosocial bond with man, r = woman between them that draws them closer to each other (like in 18th century british literature) Dickson, the man so afraid of eyes, cannot bear to be seen by the man, collis(? whose eyes are failing. Frederick for him to attempt to do "something") Frederick doesn"t give his name to the police because he doesn"t want to implicate himself in the mess. Higgins is freed by the police eventually but he goes mad - he even develops a maniacal laugh after spending time in the mad house.