ENGL 3207H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Locus Amoenus, Amatory Fiction, Paratext
2 Feb 2016
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Portrayal of england is after reading week. In eovaai the marvelous east from fantasy as an exotic and sexual space (1001 nights) The genre: the oriental tale as a space to reflect on british politics and sexual politics (male-female relationships) Last time: hierarchy china as superior to other eastern nations; as ideal space virginity. Locus amoenus: opening as utopia/eden pre-adamatical. Seems that way jewel as her. Amatory fiction about seduction and conquest; foregrounds female desire; Haywood explores this all the way through her fiction. The problem of women acknowledging their desire; the triumph of passion over reason. The ideal that the text holds up: constitutional monarchy go back to. Bad models: ochitoucho* (robert walpole) absolutism; republicanism; the. Along the way: satire on walpole: roman a clef typical for the oriental tale digs at walpole distancing effect of oriental tale as mentioned last time. Orientalism and the idea of the other . Common perceptions of the east as a monolithic entity.
