ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Romanticism, Multiperspectivity, Paratext
Document Summary
How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made clear in the reading of them. Technology: documents are supposedly accurate because of technology. The new means of communication excited people but also scared them. Can be seen as modernity trying to defeat superstition. It"s very appropriate to the time period: makes it seem rooted in its time but also a bit dated, typewriters were in popular demand and constantly advertised, lots used shorthand (e. g. , clergymen, politicians, etc. ) like mina and johnathon. Johnathon"s diary is written in shorthand that"s why count dracula can"t read his notes he"s making in his journal. She says it"s easier to make notes than by hand and she can make 3 copies at once. Mina"s engagement to johnathon also seems to be a sort of vocational training; she"ll be working as a secretary for johnathon.
