defoe behn
- Created by: HCLS
- Created on: 17-05-15 14:00
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- DEFOE AND BEHN
- Watt: Rise of the Novel
- circumstantial view
- subjectivity, intensified consciousness, selfhood
- ordinary individual
- EMPIRE + THE NOVEL GENRE
- IRONIC focalism/construction of (British) subject
- RC ISLAND Control = Self-mastery
- space for self-reflexivity/narcissism
- 28 years' isolation
- Journal: Puritan self-confession narrative
- centralise individual everyday experience
- Hulme footprint threatening
- Lord/sovereign of manor
- space for self-reflexivity/narcissism
- Blaut: Eurocentric diffusionism/Spatial elitism
- Constructself-image through interaction with the Other
- Novak: naming
- assimilation into Europeannarrative
- Novak: naming
- Constructself-image through interaction with the Other
- stable, coherent identity vs vastness of globe/relative importance
- RC ISLAND Control = Self-mastery
- IRONIC focalism/construction of (British) subject
- CAPITALISM/MC INDIVIDUAL
- Crusoe commercial traveller
- exile > governor = MC work ethic
- self-made man: capitalistic enterpriser
- exile > governor = MC work ethic
- Behn: Catholic Royalist Tory
- anti-modern/anti-bourgeois
- MC colonial offenders: Byam
- Charles I political allegory 'royal slave'
- Divine Right of Kings/insincere abolitionist stance
- anti-modern/anti-bourgeois
- Crusoe commercial traveller
- Watt: Rise of the Novel
- BEHN'S ROMANCE TRADITION/ANTI-MODERN REBELLION
- Oroonoko: aristocratic characters over everyday individual, high inborn lovers, nobility and royal power
- Oroondates (La Calprenede's17th century Cassandra) Scythian Prince as romantic lover
- Looks backwards to nostalgic past (anti-modern)
- Spengemann: "sought to make place for her antique ideals in the hated modern world"
- Link: Watt believes Behn 'made no significant contribution to the development of the [novel] form
- rejects the everyday experience, subjectivity
- zero-focalised omniscient narrative/not dependent on human subject or identity
- romance relies on the objective, eternal moral order of things
- Oroonoko's natural and inherent aristocracy though he's extremely black: nobility traverses the specific
- BTR Surinam/true 'History', observed anthropology of artefacts (flora, fauna) and human perception of 'New World'
- anthropology concerned with 'novel' phenomena
- quickly disbanded before Coramantien romance
- Oroonoko: aristocratic characters over everyday individual, high inborn lovers, nobility and royal power
- BEHN: AUTHORITY OF WHITE FEMALE NARRATOR
- writes self out of colonial horror
- colonial mastery through the construct of relative value of female bodies based on race
- 'consolidates womanhood, whiteness and Englishness simultaneously'
- belongs to men/phsyically deconstructed through Behn's words
- narrator lacks father husband
- takes her body out of economicand sexual circulation
- narrator lacks father husband
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