ENG 3362 Lecture 7: "She" End + The New Woman
4 Feb 2019
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For wednesday: the reading is about the demise/death of love. It is an elusive poem and intentionally enigmatic. It is not always entire clear what is being talked about, but pay attention to the shifts in voice (sometimes the perspective is written about in dialogue, sometimes not). Think about who is speaking in each stanza and what those voices are representing to us. Haggard"s she offers us two figures of the exotic to explore. The racial and cultural otherness of africa and its peoples. Playing directly to the fears and fantasies of the victorian population. He takes advantage of and exploits the appetites that his readers have. The two principle threads are the literal geographic territory of empire (booth vs. stanley) and the fear/interest/questions of women"s power (the growing feminist movement). Empire: haggard is capitalizing on the idea of a travel narrative, offered up as an imperial romance.
