ENG 3320 Lecture 12: End of Howard's End

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 3320
• Professor: Kelly St- Jacques

Document Summary

Feb 17 l12 howard"s end continued. Born out of victorian origins: concerns relevant to today: such as male power, female aspirations, etc. Opposing gender constraints: opposition on feminism and socials vs conservatives. Motor cars (still had horse and buggies) Expectation of realism: more romance than realism what ought to be, what could be. He"s in period of frustration (forrester) when he wrote this (love life) Misogynistic quality because he doesn"t have a male figure, doesn"t understand himself. Intrusive style of narrator sympathetic or not: merges with meg. Structure relegates women to inferior class wants to take that apart. Trying to address imbalance, but can"t seem to get away from these attitudes: not always comfortable addressing the opposition. Trying to get rid of masculine terms. Female doesn"t like kids sets her apart. (meg) M uses social constructs as levers against men.