ENG 531 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Protestantism, Castle Rackrent, Tyrant
3 Nov 2016
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Written in the midst of revolutionary backlash: new sedition and public gathering laws in england that made talking about politics dangerous, and illegal. Deals with a single relationship between squire and servant: microcosm of injustices in system of inherited (unearned) privilege. Squire: low end, although still rich, of landed gentry; untitled, but landowning: two in the novel being as foils of one another, tyrrel. Parochial; small mined, narrow perspective, lives in a small world. Generous: by the end of the novel they end up behaving in the same way, character determined, bounded by political systems, doubling (doppelganger) effect between williams and falkland; acts as his shadow. Tyranny produces only two options: tyrant and slave. Demonstrates characters who do not have full control or agency. Victim of prejudice: the two novels are similar in structure. New academic and aesthetic concern; takes on the name antiquarianism. 1717; brand belonged to society of antiquaries: antiquarian, antique; things from a distant past.
