ENG307H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Xenophobia, Infant Mortality, Hard Fate
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Not only a window into fashionable life/one woman"s maneuvers within patriarchal society. > englishness + english ways; nation + nationhood. Act 1 scene 3: englishmen make the best artists, philosophers, etc doricourt; appeals to british sentiments which would attract people. Domestic = something that exists and occurs particular to a country; englishness; women and englishness. Domestic is expansive as it denotes home and nation; use as tool to envision cowley"s idea that a sound domestic nation is not only compromised of men, but also of the healthy relationships between men and women. Cowley suggests that however awesome nationalism is, it creates some xenophobia (fear of others) > other ppl eg. french, englishmen returned from indian colonies, chinese, P. 259: letitia says: she"s willing to sacrifice even her own nationality + Sexuality for doricourt -> she celebrates globalism and flexibility of (gender) identity, juxtaposing ideas of self/other. Others can become christians -> jewish can become like englishmen too th c. england.
