Passionlessness
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
After finishing The Scarlet Letter and this week’s selection of readings, like Colby, I noticed the similarity between Hester Prynne’s situation and the argument Nancy F. Cott makes in “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology 1790-1850.” Plus, from last class, the fact that The Scarlet Letter is a story about Puritans through a Victorian […]
Passionlessness
Tags: Cott, Discourse, Hester Prynne, Power, The Scarlet Letter
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Overwhelming Deployment
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
At the end of our discussion last week, Professor Quinby prompted us to think about how Foucault’s notion of the deployment of sexuality shows up in our readings. I want to focus primarily on this weeks essays as I found them really interesting and a good springboard for discussion about the Scarlet Letter in class. […]
Overwhelming Deployment
Tags: Cott, Foucault, Juridico-Discursive, Religion, Sexuality, The Deployment of Sexuality, The Scarlet Letter, Victorian Era
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