ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - John Locke, These Girls, Bildungsroman
Document Summary
18th c, private/domestic sphere (women: not about leaving home, but about staying home, or desire to find a home, completely different from crusoe, when jo and meg talk about going on adventures. Dancing and going to tea next door. Published in 1868, second part published after, and the two were bounded together. Very popular and praised from the get-go: a straightforward, moral book, fictional sermon that will enlighten the little girls that read it. Never far from the surface of the book. Hitting you in the head with the point. Icr: moral female child: much stronger in american culture than european culture, book written 150 years after crusoe was written, pilgrim s progress provides moral structure for the book. Allegory in which the main character christian, takes up burden, leaves his family sets off quest for celestial city (heaven) Each adventure stands for a religious meaning. The meaning of what happens in the adventures comes from beyond the text.
