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Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 days, 8 hours agoWhat isn’t clear to me here is how the Sylphs, who I have interpreted as very fairy-like and feminine so far, are associated with women straying off of what I assume is the accepted path for womanhood?
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Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 days, 8 hours agoWhat isn’t clear to me here is who Caryl (a muse, presumably) is, and why they are relevant to the matter at hand? Is this a reference that deepens the understanding of the point being made by the poem?
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Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 6 days, 15 hours agoOops I hadn’t realized we were required to do two until I was going back through Brightspace today – anyway, Montague writes Flavia to believe herself to have been better than everyone else before smallpox brought […]
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Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week agoThis line perfectly summarizes Flavia’s lament of the entire poem: that with a loss of beauty comes a loss of power. It begs the question, though, is Montague critiquing the system of women’s pretty privilege, or […]
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Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Chapter 3, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 1 day agoI was not at all surprised that Gulliver didn’t actually like his previous master – I was more surprised that he did not act on this information while still in his care.
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