ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Prynne, Capitalism, Puritans
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Importance of private life in the public sphere. Significance of the virtue of individual citizens in public character. Question about what or who the ideal american is. F(cid:396)o(cid:373) f(cid:396)a(cid:374)kli(cid:374), the i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)(cid:272)e of i(cid:374)se(cid:396)ti(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s self i(cid:374)to the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) sphe(cid:396)e. From emerson, self-reliance challenging ideas of inheritance and conformity. Insistence on shared words; individuality in the context of society. Ho(cid:449) do (cid:449)e deal (cid:449)ith f(cid:396)a(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455); (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ile differences! From whitman: fullness & plentitude actually betrays its incompleteness. Ha(cid:449)tho(cid:396)(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d whit(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s use of unanswered questions; as in. From douglass, the social dimension of re-making the self in order to reform society; not fixed or permanent, but becoming. Constructing of a persona, as douglass and whitman. Relationship of hawthorne to previous texts: franklin and douglass; both start in childhood, i. e. in ignorance. Repeated reference to the child as a symbol or metaphor, as in whitman and.
