ENG 3362 Lecture 1: Introduction and Industrialization
4 Feb 2019
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Starting discussion of issues of industrialization (specifically about labour) Historical moment where manufacturing was transformed from agrarian to a mechanized system. The perspectives are not always the same perspective and often contradict one another. Pay attention to: narrative form, narrative voice, persuasion/rhetoric. Britain was at the heart of the industrial revolution. It was at the forefront of the changes that were happening in industry and in empire, and as such happens through transformation, there were many casualties along the way. Commodity culture is brought forward in all of our lives and every way we move through the world is saturated by commodities and the relationships commodities have built, that have infiltrated our own identities. As we know it, commodity culture has its most tenacious roots in the victorian era. So much of our identities are bound up with how commodity culture works and it is tough to separate them.
