ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Puritans, Moral Authority, Spanish Main
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> robinson crusoe -- how this specific words in this passage construct a colonial identity. > language and form works to convey meaning -- scribble all over the passage -- Collision b/w adventure narrative and moral narrative -- no reason for children to be interested in pirates. Romantic investment in the child, cultural fantasination with pirates and their democracies. Moral aspect -- idea that child is novice like a pirate & resist social discipline. Western culture -- pulled b/w two ideals [happy and well-balance & also think for themselves] yet advice literature about how to get child to listen to you. E. g. pirates don"t say please -- child learns it"s good to say please --- old & contradictory. Identification of children with treasure hunting -- 1883 - first published in 1881-82 in a journal for children. Lost robinson crusoe"s providence worldview and move towards chance. Ben gunn parodies robinson crusoe"s conversion narrative.
