ENG 565A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sensation Novel, Wilkie Collins, Foreign Body
5 Apr 2016
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Cuff disrupts the order of old society in trying to make everyone equal, spying/ sneaking, use rationality: cuff represents nouveau riche, affront to values is the novel conservative? reinforcing old aristocratic system? (foucalt?) We don"t suspect betteredge because he comes across as na ve. Indians: power of protagonism, narrative is manipulative, miller- is the novel part of ideology?, participates in teaching us about power structures (moonstone- inevitability of power hierarchy- the truth naturally comes out through power structure) Anti-colonial- we need to return the riches that we took from another country inverts conservative framework of sensation novel of core conservative storyline and middle subversiveness (core structure of indians being correct and middle accusation of their guilt) Herncastle went with an army to steal diamond, murthwaite blends in where the three indians cannot blend in with white society. Ezra jennings as hybrid, representative of weaker female constitution? inclusion of other races and women in this category.
