ENGB31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Larklight, London Dispersion Force

• School: UTSC
• Department: English
• Course: ENGB31H3
• Professor: Christine Bolus- Reichert

Document Summary

Engb31 lec 17: the romance and the wonder of variety. Are we able to say things said in the past. To the roman empire in life of brian: can"t write an empire story without the terrible things, complex read. Colonial nostalgia as represented in larklight, might be as much about the nostalgia for romance as for empire. In chapter 14 characters talk about its eventual end and the end of all empires (quoting shelly). Art and myrtle are pretty clear pro-empire while jack is not (at least at first). Chapter 14: pictorial epigraph from canals of mars by richard burton, work of exploration and natural history. Burton is real historical figure which searched for the source of the nile in egypt as translated in arabian nights. Percy shelly ozymandis (1818: everywhere we go always find ruins somewhereand always falls too. Loss of nature and commons for poor people: comparison of the war of the worlds by h. g.