ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Degeneration Theory, Social Darwinism, New Imperialism
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Sexualized landscape - female bodies and colonized lands/conquering a woman"s body. Frame tell narrative quartermain story and footnotes from editor (fake) and separated by historical facts (real editor) Victorian hierarchy had to do with status. E. b tylor, primitive culture: human culture passes through three stages savagery, barbarism (use tools), and civilization (victorians) The organisms pass through developmental stages that look like adult animals of other species, in roughly the same order that these other species split off during evolution. In all essentials the savage and the child of civilization are identical . Silas marner - people in rural area are considered to think and be like children. The child that lives within you into adulthood is a type of survival. Combination of the extraordinary and the realistic. A narrative of mundane events fails to excite, but an exaggeration of extraordinary incidents fails to be credible.
