ENG234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: The Light Princess, German Romanticism
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Lived under reign of queen victoria - great stability. Advocate families to live in certain way. Protestant minister - fired for being too merciful. Writer - poetry, plays - lots of religious romances for adults. Experience of beauty must be approached as if they = children (of god) The child is father of the man - wordsworth. 1862: embedded in novel of stories for adults -> took it out. Female adolescence as sleep - sleeping beauty -> enclose girl. Princess = state of arrested development until someone does something for her. King = sexually naive (no understanding of bodily necessities) Neither king nor queen break from nursery. Childishness has to precede by a different type of child spirituality. Masculine characteristics via snake - phalic symbol. Reins lake - associated with femininity/where princess can grow. Snake = huge leech - appears to emerge from m. Prince = same vague yearning as king for child. Alerts to forthcoming subversions of fairytale conventions.
