ENGB31 Lecture Notes - Darkest Africa, Homosociality, Single Spies
Document Summary
To all little and big boys : boyhood not literally only for boys. More earth-bound than fantasties imperialism vs romance: 1880"s: new romance . Claims made for the romance as a genre: More truthful about the human condition than realism ( the unpleasant. Real [andrew lang]: realism leaves out any kind of humanity. Return in one way or another to childhood. Romance champions agency: vs. naturalism and determinism: adventure chance agency, we must take our chance , there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. Its about the body and not the mind; focus on the agency. About action and danger; aggressively masculine and. Aggressively masculine aggressively homosocial: ct. earlier gendering of the romance, there is not a petticoat in the whole history . You got to have a concept of an empire in order to have an empire. Complexity: the kikianas: ideal, romance nostalgia vs. modernity.
