Its Monday, but lets talk about Friday

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Its Monday, but lets talk about Friday
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Psychological Realism

• p. 122 Crusoe discovers a cannibal footprint
• Crusoes state of mind after he discovers the
  single footprint on the beach is one of the great
  psychological moments in all of English fiction
• Why do you think Richetti makes this claim? Do
  you agree with it?

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Romanticism

• Def 18th and early 19th C British/European
  movement, associated with 1) interest in nature
  and the primitive 2) association of human
  moods with moods of nature 3) natural religion,
  or idea that god resides in nature 4) exaltation
  of the individual and of personal (extravagant!)
  expression

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Noble Savage

• The noble savage is a free and wild being who
  draws directly from nature virtues which raise
  doubts as to the value of civilization
• --Hoxie Neale Fairchild

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Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778
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Paternalism

• Def policy of governing people in a fatherly
  manner, by refusing them any responsibility but
  providing for their needs. Paternalism was part
  of the ideology of slavery the slave was thought
  to be like a child, to be cared for but given
  no autonomy.
• See p. 168

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Natural v. Civil Society

• Natural Existence Civil Society
• instinct justice
• Amoral moral
• appetite reason
• the mere impulse to appetite is slavery, while
  obedience to a law which we prescribe to
  ourselves is liberty (The Social Contract, 196).
  
• natural liberty, civil liberty,
• possession based on personal power secure
  proprietorship based on respect for the law
  
• individual strength general will
• from a stupid and unimaginative animal to an
  intelligent being and a man (The Social
  Contract, 196)

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Two strains of colonial travel writing (acc. to
Mary Louise Pratt)
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Ethnography

• Def a genre of writing that uses fieldwork
  (observation) to provide a descriptive study of
  human societies