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  1. Nov 2015
    1. a poor wretch sitting on the steps of the door.

      la rue

    2. “Prithee, don’t plague me, man,” cried Mrs. Crayton impatiently, as the servant advanced something in behalf of the unhappy girl. “I tell you I don’t know her.”

      wow, she really is a horrible person

    3. Sir

      didn't the narrator already establish that the reader is a female? interesting

    4. you are united to a man of honour and humanity, united by the most sacred ties, respected, esteemed, and admired

      marriage

    5. a nasty, impudent hussey

      woah

    6. Never did any human being wish for death with greater fervency or with juster cause; yet she had too just a sense of the duties of the Christian religion to attempt to put a period to her own existence.

      she wants to commit suicide but she thinks that she will go to hell

    7. she was no longer an object of desire:

      because that's all she ever was really

    8. bosom

      can we make a drinking game for this novel...every time she uses the word "bosom", drink

    9. he was bent on the complete ruin of the unhappy girl, and supposed, by reducing her to an entire dependance on him, to bring her by degrees to consent to gratify his ungenerous passion.

      belcour is way worse than montraville...why is he so hellbent on destroying her??

    10. had it not been for her, I might have been happy—” He paused.

      perhaps she really is the antagonist...

    11. “Sure,” said he, “you cannot mean to insinuate that Charlotte is false.”

      is he suggesting that she's faking her pregnancy?

    12. Mother, my dear mother! do not let me quite break your heart when I tell you, in a few months I shall bring into the world an innocent witness of my guilt. Oh my bleeding heart, I shall bring a poor little helpless creature, heir to infamy and shame.

      nooooooooo

    13. “I am a villain,” said he mentally, as he turned from her to hide his emotions.

      all he has to do is rub his hands together manically and he's the real deal! oh and grow a twirly moustache

    14. “I shall never forget you, Charlotte,”

      well he just did about two seconds ago so.....awkward

    15. I fear I have not only entailed lasting misery on that poor girl, but also thrown a barrier in the way of my own happiness, which it will be impossible to surmount.

      he totally knew what he was getting her into...jerk

    16. Julia Franklin was the very reverse of Charlotte Temple:

      FOIL

    17. he forgot Charlotte,

      ugh rude

    18. He was immediately introduced, found she was the owner of the jewels,

      did he take them on purpose? cause he knew that they belonged to her and he wanted to meet her?

    19. guilt, poverty, and disease close the dreadful scene: she sinks unnoticed to oblivion.

      totally not depressing at all

    1. he should learn that babies are born from the bowel,

      excuse me but who taught you that

    2. He either parts obediently with his faeces, “sacrifices” them to his love, or else retains them for purposes of auto-erotic satisfaction and later as a means of asserting his own will.

      anal psycho sexual stage, gratification

    3. we not infrequently meet with the repressedwish to possess a penis like a man.

      ah penis envy

    4. If we penetrate deeply enough into the neurosis of a woman

      seriously freud...haha

    5. (money, gift)

      huh?

    6. anal-erotic instinctual impulses.

      is he speaking of the result of an unresolved psycho sexual stage? fixation?

    1. n a way which reminds one of historical intrigues

      royal children?

    2. his desire to bring his mother (who is the subject of the most intense sexual curiosity) into situations of secret infidelity and into secret love-affairs.’

      oedipus complex

    3. This stage is reached at a time at which the child is still in ignorance of the sexual determinants of procreation.

      they don't know how babies are made? what

    4. verisimilitude

      truth

    5. the child’s imagination becomes engaged in the task of getting free from the parents of whom {223} he now has a low opinion and of replacing them by others

      sounds like a typical 15 year old to me...wants little to do with his/her parents

    6. the child’s imagination becomes engaged in the task of getting free from the parents of whom {223} he now has a low opinion and of replacing them by others

      sounds like a typical 15 year old to me...wants little to do with his/her parents

    7. On the other hand, there is a class of neurotics whose condition is recognizably determined by their having failed in this task.

      the guy that still lives in his mom's basement?

    1. legally prostituted

      i mean yeah that's a good way to put it!

    2. when, waiting for an answer, he discovered, under the concealment of a large bonnet, the face of Charlotte Temple.

      oh, how convenient

    3. he chaste Queen of Night with her silver crescent faintly illuminated the hemisphere.

      pretty!

    4. the Argus’s who guarded the Hesperian fruit

      some sort of allusion...greek perhaps?

    5. a musket ball from our friends, the Americans, may in less than two months make you feel worse.

      nothing like impending doom to foster your feelings of love am i right

    6. “Pho,”

      ?

    7. I shall feel a much higher gratification in reflecting on this trifling performance, than could possibly result from the applause which might attend the most elegant finished piece of literature whose tendency might deprave the heart or mislead the understanding.

      helping someone is more gratifying than fame, she says

    8. FOR the perusal of the young and thoughtless of the fair sex, this Tale of Truth is designed;

      so kinda like those books you see in the grocery store with the cheesy covers...what are those called? lol

    1. "traditional" truths

      derrida?

    2. Don't ask; You shouldn't know.

      don't ask, don't tell?

    3. tautologies

      philosophy

    4. "I'm nobody. Who are you?"

      dickinson, right?

    5. The most notorious instance of this has occurred with feminist studies in literature, which by on the one hand confronting the master-canon with alternative canons of women's literature, and on the other hand reading rebelliously within the master-canon, has not only somewhat rearranged the table of contents for the master-canon but, more important, given it a title.

      providing alternative readings of well known works and creating feminist texts?

    6. Their more important effect, however, has been to challenge, if not the empirical centrality, then the conceptual anonymity of the master-canon.

      i feel like we're going to talk about this...not sure what it means but seems important

  2. Oct 2015
    1. Blush, ye vaunters of fortitude; ye boasters of resolution; ye haughty lords of the creation; blush when ye remember, that he was influenced by no other motive than a bare pusilianimous attachment to a woman!

      men are driven by sex she says, therefore why are they the sex that is intellectually cultivated

    2. rib under the arm, at a distance from the head

      adam and eve?

    3. gewgaws

      what is this word lol

    4. we can only reason from what we know, and if an opportunity of acquiring knowledge hath been denied us, the inferiority of our sex cannot fairly be deduced from thence.

      women become inferior intellectually when they are not given the same chance at education

    5. Another instance of our creative powers, is our talent for slander; how ingenious are we at inventive scandal? what a formidable story can we in a moment fabricate merely from the force of a prolifick imagination? how many reputations, in the fertile brain of a female, have been utterly despoiled?

      i see what she's doing here...women are creative in ways men are not

    6. That such distinctions only dwell below;

      erm...like genitalia? are we back to sex here?

    7. Who this distinction to the sex ascribe, As if a woman’s form must needs enrol, A weak, a servile, an inferiour soul; And that the guise of man must still proclaim, Greatness of mind, and him, to be the same:

      the bradstreet vibes are strong with this one

    8. THAT minds are not alike, full well I know,

      more biological determinism though i'm not sure she's being serious...

    1. CONSTANTIA

      ?

    2. love, friendship and esteem, ought to take place of marriage,

      woo you go girl

    3. throw herself away upon the first who approaches her with tenders of love

      plenty of fish in the sea kinda thing going on here? or more like don't settle

    4. nature

      biological determinism? wouldn't she be opposed to this idea though...

    5. Those, for example, who have the care of a beautiful female, they assiduously guard every avenue, they arrest the stream of due admiration, and endeavour to divest her of all idea of the bounties of nature:

      women are shielded from true education, they are deemed unworthy of intellectual cultivation

    6. Rous’d by a new stimulus

      sex?

    7. indolence of virtue

      puritan ideals? is this about sex like everything else?

    8. Bard

      shakespeare?

    9. embow’ring

      what is this word?

    1. if heterosexuality is compelled to repeat itself in order to establish the illusion of its own uniformity and identity, then this is an identity permanently at risk, for what if it fails to repeat, or if the very exercise of repetition is redeployed for a very different performative purpose?

      if hetero roles are not kept up, homo ones will take over as the dominant?

    2. constitutive malaise

      feel like this is going to be important later

    3. For it is only as a copy that homosexuality can be argued to precede heterosexuality as the origin. In other words, the entire framework of copy and origin proves radically unstable as each position inverts into the other and confounds the possibility of any stable way to locate the temporal or logical priority of either term.

      derrida and capital T truths

    4. homosexuality is thus the origin, and heterosexuality the copy.

      oooh scandalous

    5. Lesbianism is not explicitly prohibited in part because it has not even made its way into the thinkable

      even in sexuality women and men aren't equal...

    6. gay men exist as objects of prohibition; they are, in his twisted fantasy, sadomasochistic exploiters of children, the paradigmatic exemplars of “obscenity”;

      buffalo bill? sexual deviance correlating with queerness

    7. what precisely that sign signifies.

      cough structuralism cough

    8. identity categories tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes, whether as the normalizing categories of oppressive structures or as the rallying points for a liberatory contestation of that very oppression

      either gender is society's way to confine people or it is an individual's way to break away from the norm

    9. For it is a production, usually in response to a request, to come out or write in the name of an identity which, once produced, sometimes functions as a politically efficacious phantasm.

      kinda like what we were talking about in class today...why is it important to name authors as being LGBT?

    1. that the scriptures everywhere from genesis to the revelations warn us against it;

      there was slavery in the bible though.........right?

    2. Although you are deprived of the means of education; yet you are not deprived of the means of meditation; by which I mean thinking, hearing and weighing matters, men and things in your own mind, and making that judgment of them as you think reasonable to satisfy your minds and give an answer to those who may ask you a question.

      THIS

    3. our African brethren six years ago, in the French West Indies.

      haitian revolution? l'ouverture?

    4. how are you shamefully abus’d, and that at such a degree, that you may truly be said to carry your lives in your hands; and the arrows of death are flying about your heads;

      revolutionary war?

    5. The great law-giver, Moses,

      i feel like we're going back to the religiousness...

    6. Thus, my brethren, we see what a chequered world we live in. Sometimes happy in having our wives and children like olive branches about our tables;

      chequered...as in black and white? wives and children keep the peace? there's a lot to be said here for sure...

    7. let us see them dragg’d from their native country, by the iron hand of tyranny and oppression, from their dear friends and connections, with weeping eyes and aching hearts, to a strange land and strange people, whose tender mercies are cruel; and there to bear the iron yoke of slavery & cruelty till death as a friend shall relieve them.

      powerful stuff

    1. I have been most grievously afflicted, and yet thro’ the Divine Goodness, as miraculously preserved, and delivered out of many Dangers;

      divine intervention?

    2. After being at Jamaica a short Time we sail’d for London, as convoy to a Fleet of Merchantmen, who all arrived safe in the Downs, I was turned over to another Ship, the Arcenceil, and there remained about a Month. From this Ship I went on board the Sandwich of 90 Guns; on board the Sandwich, I tarry’d 6 Weeks, and then was order’d on board the Hercules, Capt. John Porter, a 74 Gun Ship, we sail’d on a Cruize, and met with a French 84 Gun Ship, and had a very smart Engagement,*

      where is he even trying to go? just wants to get away from the life he had before?

    3. I immediately jump’d overboard, chusing rather to be drowned, than to be kill’d by those barbarous and inhuman Savages.

      attitude towards indians is interesting

    1. The colony being essentially agricultural cannot suffer the least disruption in the works of its cultivation.

      sooooo if slavery has been abolished...who is cultivating?

    2. said ministers can never, under any circumstance, form a corps in the colony.

      religious coup?

    3. departments, arrondissements (districts) and parishes.

      french tradition...kinda like new orleans

    1. that no lady dances after marriage

      lame

    2. Pope, Dryden, Thompson, Shakspeare, and of the French, Molière, Racine, the Corneilles, may be read with pleasure and improvement.

      of course shakespeare, always shakespeare

    3. When this poison infects the mind, it destroys its tone and revolts it against wholesome reading.

      so what should we be reading then?

    1. Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.

      more deism?

    2. We know that among the Romans, about the Augustan age especially, the condition of their slaves was much more deplorable than that of the blacks on the continent of America.

      may be true but slavery is still slavery...

    3. They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation.

      animalistic

    4. The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought worthy attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man?

      erm eugenics?

    5. The first difference which strikes us is that of colour. Whether the black of the negro resides in the reticular membrane between the skin and scarf-skin, or in the scarf-skin itself; whether it proceeds from the colour of the blood, the colour of the bile, or from that of some other secretion, the difference is fixed in nature, and is as real as if its seat and cause were better known to us.

      social darwinism...sort of. basically saying that the binary opposition is backed up my physical differences in the body

    6. It is to be lamented then, very much to be lamented, that we have suffered so many of the Indian tribes already to extinguish, without our having previously collected and deposited in the records of literature, the general rudiments at least of the languages they spoke.

      well that's a refreshing view point, finally someone who actually cares

    7. Groenland

      greenland

    8. The women are submitted to unjust drudgery. This I believe is the case with every barbarous people. With such, force is law. The stronger sex therefore imposes on the weaker. It is civilization alone which replaces women in the enjoyment of their natural equality. That first teaches us to subdue the selfish passions, and to respect those rights in others which we value in ourselves. Were we in equal barbarism, our females would be equal drudges. The man with them is less strong than with us, but their woman stronger than ours; and both for the same obvious reason; because our man and their woman is habituated to labour, and formed by it…

      this is fascinating commentary on sexism...would make for an interesting blog post...

    9. though it be to the whites, who he knows will treat him well

      wait, really?

    10. enterprize

      curious spelling

    1. origin of the prohibition of incest.

      i have no idea what this means...

    2. The paradox is that the metaphysical reduction of the sign needed the opposition it was reducing.

      again with strengthening the opposing idea

    3. There is no sense in doing without the concepts of metaphysics in order to attack metaphysics. We have no language-no syntax and no lexicon-which is alien to this history; we cannot utter a single destructive proposition which has not already slipped into the form, the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest.

      is this where the whole powerful/weak example comes into play? by saying one is superior, you strengthen the opposition?

    4. (sign without truth present)

      not capital T truth

    5. an infinite number of sign-substitutions came into play

      more metonymy

    6. this law of the central presence-but a central presence which was never itself

      logocentrism?

    7. It would be possible to show that all the names related to fundamentals, to principles, or to the I center have always designated the constant of a presence-eidos, arche, telos, energeia, ousia (essence, existence, substance, subject) aletheia [truth], transcendentality, consciousness, or conscience, God, man, and so forth.

      this seems important but i can't really say why necessarily, quite the loaded statement

    8. metonymies.

      ah ha!

    9. a linked chain of determinations of the center

      is this the metonymy we spoke of in class?

    10. eschatology

      huh?

    11. The center is not the center

      he likes paradoxes doesn't he

    12. the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it.

      center = text?

    13. concept of structure and even the word "structure" itself are as old as the episteme

      logocentrism?

    14. this event will have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling.

      ?

    1. But it appears that Thomas did not believe the resurrection; and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I; and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas..

      is he speaking in third person...why?

    2. heathen mythology.

      paganism?

    1. nineteenth of April 1775

      shot heard round the world?

    2. sullen tempered Pharaoh of England for ever

      interesting phrase

    3. A temporary stoppage of trade,

      embargo?

    4. junto

      ?

    5. I am not induced by motives of pride, party, or resentment to espouse the doctrine of separation and independance; I am clearly, positively, and conscientiously persuaded that it is the true interest of this continent to be so;

      aka common sense, not based on religion or personal ideals

    6. Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning

      sense of desperation

    7. I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object.

      finally someone who makes some sense...hallelujah

    8. But let our imaginations transport us for a few moments to Boston, that seat of wretchedness will teach us wisdom, and instruct us for ever to renounce a power in whom we can have no trust. The inhabitants of that unfortunate city, who but a few months ago were in ease and affluence, have now, no other alternative than to stay and starve, or turn and beg.

      boston tea party?

    9. Even the distance at which the Almighty hath placed England and America, is a strong and natural proof, that the authority of the one, over the other, was never the design of Heaven.

      long distance relationships never work out...

    10. Because, any submission to, or dependence on Great Britain, tends directly to involve this continent in European wars and quarrels; and sets us at variance with nations, who would otherwise seek our friendship, and against whom, we have neither anger nor complaint.

      the relationship only causes unnecessary tension

    11. But admitting, that we were all of English descent, what does it amount to? Nothing. Britain, being now an open enemy, extinguishes every other name and title: And to say that reconciliation is our duty, is truly farcical. The first king of England, of the present line (William the Conqueror) was a Frenchman, and half the Peers of England are descendants from the same country; therefore, by the same method of reasoning, England ought to be governed by France.

      ha ha!

    12. the king and his parasites

      ouch

    1. they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold ’em up one moment; the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up;

      i was right...this text is WAY different than the first one in terms of depicting god and his demeanor

    2. they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it

      sounds a little bit judge-y to me...everyone is already sentenced to damnation?

    1. The very thought of any joy arising in me, on any consideration of my own amiableness, performances, or experiences, or any goodness of heart or life, is nauseous and detestable to me.

      the hell is wrong with this guy...first he's like yay god! now he's all doom and gloom

    2. Often, since I lived in this town, I have had very affecting views of my own sinfulness and vileness

      hmm interesting to see a parallel between a place and sin...salem anyone?

    3. panted

      animal imagery

    4. The soul of a true Christian

      a true christian? is this to say there are untrue christians? sinners?

    5. ejaculatory prayer

      erm...i know what he means but still

    6. sweet

      i swear if this guy says sweet one more time i'm going to punch him

    7. sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ

      i feel like this is going to change later on....

    8. and returned like a dog to his vomit, and went on in the ways of sin

      that's quite the mental image

    1. We would no longer hear the questions that have been rehashed for so long: Who really spoke? Is it really he and not someone else? With what authenticity or originality? And what part of his deepest sell did he express in his discourse? Instead, there would be other questions, like these: What are the modes of existence of this discourse? Where has it been used, how can it circulate, and who can appropriate it for himself? What are the places in it where there is room for possible subjects? Who can assume these various subject functions? And behind all these questions, we would hear hardly anything but the stirring of an indifference: What difference does it make who is speaking?

      this, i feel, is the meat of the entire text. this is what foucalt has been getting at the entire time!

    2. The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations that fill a work; the author does not precede the works; he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and recomposition of fiction.

      the author is dead?

    3. Saint Jerome proposes four criteria: (i) if among several books attributed to an author one is inferior to the others, it must be withdrawn from the list of the author's works (the author is therefore defined as a constant level of value); (2) the same should be done if certain texts contradict the doctrine expounded in the author's other works (the author is thus defined as a field of conceptual or theoretical coherence); (3) one must also exclude works that are written in a different style, containing words and expressions not ordinarily found in the writer's production (the author is here conceived as a stylistic unity); (4) finally, passages quoting statements made or mentioning events that occurred after the author's death must be regarded as interpolated texts (the author is here seen as a historical figure at the crossroads of a certain number of events).

      this seems very limiting for authors.....

    4. The author allows a limitation of the cancerous and dangerous proliferation of significations within a world where one is thrifty not only with one's resources and riches but also with one's discourses and their significations.

      i feel like this is significant but i'm not sure why exactly

    5. Freud is not just the author of The Interpretation of Dreams or Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious; Marx is not just the author of the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital: they both have established an endless possibility of discourse

      they have written texts but also have created a theory within others will work and write

    6. Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, sacralized and sacralizing figures) to the extent that authors became subject to punishment

      so being controversial = being a legit author?

    1. Traditions are no longer passed down the generations. Instead, they are learned from celebrity chefs, the modern day oracles.

      speaks to the commercialization of holidays...kinda sad if you ask me

    2. From 2007, the visual images of the men got bigger, so in the end they were bigger than the visual images of the food. During the same period, the women were shown serving the food. In some cases, because the image was small, the woman was shown as torso only.

      men become the focal point of the meal, not shown serving because it is a "female" thing to do? torso only...boobs?

    3. Increasingly, the magazines featured visual images of male chefs, who were usually shown either sitting, or carving, but not serving.

      more gender role stuff

    4. A semiotic analysis of texts looks at how words and images combine to create meaning together.

      signified, signifier

    5. Our analysis clearly showed that ‘perfect’ means not just how the food was cooked but how it was displayed;

      well duh, perfect is subjective

    6. domestic goddesses?

      i hate this guy

    7. How should brands talk to 21st Century women about making the Christmas meal?

      scuse me? it's not always women who make the meal...nor should it be #feminism

    8. The Christmas meal is an event of considerable symbolic and commercial importance in many countries, certainly the UK and Australia where the research for this paper was conducted.

      i just have to interrupt for a moment...i had christmas dinner last year in england (i was visiting my boyfriend at the time) and HOLY CRAP it was amazing. that's all

    1. a word is always, first and foremost, a member of a system, interconnected with other words, sometimes in one order of relations, sometimes in another.

      which is why words have meaning within context, going back to fish and his nests

    2. syntagmatic

      ?

    3. what creates general phenomena is the collaboration of all the individuals involved

      languages are a group effort, teamwork people

    4. The latter can be defined at the level of the individual. It is an abstract thing and requires the human being for its realisation.

      this whole section screams chomsky

    5. the written word is confused with the spoken word

      connotation vs denotation?

    1. By using the witch hunt as a les­son on proper eth­i­cal behav­ior, the museum removes the 1692 events from the past and makes them part of a con­tem­po­rary moral code.

      echoing the point at the beginning about why the trials are in a way erased by those in power

    2. Cry Inno­cent,” the brochures read, “It’s April 1692. Brid­get Bishop is on the wit­ness stand, and YOU are on the jury. Play your part in his­tory.”

      oh god, i was reading about this while i was researching my trip

    3. “true”

      exaggerated for the sake of sensationalism?

    4. This phe­nom­e­non hap­pens over and over again in Salem

      reminds me of the revolutionary war stuff that goes on in boston on every street corner

    5. fol­low their Cham­ber of Com­merce maps from site to site.

      this might be me in a few weeks...uh oh

    1. Heb

      hell?

    2. Spectre

      familiar?

    3. he lost a Cow in a strange Preternatural unusual manner

      these people seriously think that a witch would preoccupy themselves with cow murdering? yeah right...

    4. Moreover the Look of Carrier then laid the Afflicted People for dead; and her Touch, if her Eye at the same time were off them, raised them again

      zombies?

    1. And I do what I can to have that Country, now, as well as always, in the best Terms with my own.

      is he afraid that england will punish them?

    2. Frowardness, Asperity, Untreatableness, and Inconsistency

      the capitalization in this document is intriguing

    1. he found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors

      what happened? i thought they were okay with her reading the bible

    1. hey would break my face

      woah okay calm down everyone

    2. their filthy trash

      her language makes me laugh although i feel like she definitely meant it to be serious...i can't help it

    1. where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it

      a sign of compassion, perhaps the barbarous natives aren't so bad after all hmm?

    2. it

      why is she so detached from her child? she describes her child like its a burden. something to carry around

    3. but instead of that, sometimes one Indian would come and tell me one hour that “your master will knock your child in the head,” and then a second, and then a third, “your master will quickly knock your child in the head.”

      oh my

    1. Gilman

      woooo yellow wallpaper ftw

    2. The feminist content of feminine art is typically oblique, displaced, ironic, and subversive; one has to read it between the lines, in the missed possibilities of the text.

      bradstreet!

    3. During the Feminine phase, dating from about 1840 to 1880, women wrote in an effort to equal the intellectual achievements of the male culture, and internalized its assumptions about female nature. The distinguishing sign of this period is the male pseudonym, introduced in England in the 1840s, and a national characteristic of English women writers. In addition to the famous names we all know - George Eliot, Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell - dozens of other women chose male pseudo- nyms as a way of coping with a double literary standard.

      i was waiting for this!

    4. educational, experiential, and biological handicaps of the woman novelist

      wow

    5. Hating one’s mother was the feminist enlightenment of the fifties and sixties; but it is only a metaphor for hating oneself

      a little reverse oedipus complex?

  3. Sep 2015
    1. images and stereotypes of women in literature

      phew that's a statement you could talk about for days

    2. For some radical feminists, methodology itself is an intellectual instrument of patriarchy, a tyrannical methodolatry which sets implicit limits to what can be’ questioned and discussed

      because the methodology itself was created by men most likely

    3. feminist criticism will naturally be obsessed with the phallus

      yeah okay dude...

    4. Members of English departments who can remember what Harold Bloom means by clinamen, and who know the difference between Tartu and Barthian semiotics, will remark that they are against feminist. criticism and consequently have never read any.

      they're putting feminist criticism down because it isn't "fancy" enough?

    5. They are still arguing when she comes out, twenty-one pages later.

      typical

    1. and would bring bottles of strong liquor to him

      reminds me of the scene from the first pirates of the caribbean where jack and elizabeth get marooned on the island with all the rum lol

    2. Captain Shrimp,

      bradford?

    3. Chap. XV. Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount ; and the preparation made to destroy it

      these "chapter titles" remind me a lot of the titles of the native texts we read earlier

    4. beaver coats

      french fur trappers?

    5. Vncover thy head

      reference to puritan dress...the women wore bonnet type things, right?

    6. Hymens

      erm this is supposed to be hymns...correct?

    7. did from that time afterwards call the English Planters Wotawquenange, which in their language signifieth stabbers, or Cutthroats

      they know what's up, the english are up to no good

    8. They are not delighted in baubles, but care ‘ in ufefull things…

      they lead a non-materialistic life

    9. Englishman ; and then he would be a good man

      that's a loaded statement if i ever did see one

    10. and made God so angry that he let in the sea upon them, and drowned the greater part of them

      noah?

    11. get children

      um k shows what you know about how babies are made sir

    1. The 'unity for liberation' should beone of solidarity between different struggles for freedom rather than an attempt to bind everythinginto one single point of struggle

      amen

    2. 'Anti-Social behaviour'

      i took sociology of the family when i studied abroad and we talked a lot about anti-social behavior and i STILL DON'T GET IT

    3. Dialectical materialism is not 'true'; a scientific theory of history is notpossible

      THANK YOU finally someone agrees with me