EN286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Femininity, Coventry Patmore, Intertextuality
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Why we have to read tom brown"s school day & little women. To practice, to understand where young adults have come from, to familiarize with yal. Comes to writing with a sense of social justice, and transoformed it with her faminism. In little women, the main character becomes a writer like alcott. The belief was you had the money, you had responsibility for society and workers: muscular christianity - was an idea developed to make young men more interested in chritianity, which was seen as the riligion of the meat. Central concern - what it means to be men/women. Thomas hughes (1822-1896: at rugby school 1834-1842, he was lawyer, judge, mp in britian o o. The character tom brown, it was actually thomas hughes himself. But not all what tom brown does are the experience experienced by. Thomas hughes, it was just a base for the book o.