EN3222 Week 10 - Evelina Discussion Questions by Luisa Lok https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10 en-us 2022-10-19 12:49:55 UTC 2022-10-20 08:33:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Qn 1: Do you agree that Burney’s portrayal of gender and gender relations was ahead of her time? luisalok09 https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2346941775 2022-10-19 12:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2346941775 Qn2 : What do you think of Burney’s address to her critics in the preface? Are they effective in enabling her to create a space for herself in the literary realm as Choi argues? Why or why not? luisalok09 https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2346942113 2022-10-19 12:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2346942113 Qn3: Compare and contrast Evelina’s assertion of her identity with the other female protagonists (i.e. Roxana, Pamela, Shamela) that we’ve encountered in the module thus far. Do you think Burney is more or less successful than her male counterparts in creating a well-rounded female character? luisalok09 https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2346942531 2022-10-19 12:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2346942531 Response to Qns 1 https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2348617973 I feel that Burney's portrayal does push boundaries when it comes to exposing the transgressions and challenges that female individuals of that era take on or face, but in a way follows the same trajectory as the other novels that we've seen throughout this module. But because this is one of the novels written by a female author on the female experience, it does give hot takes on how women were expected to act in that time. However, I do feel it was ahead of its time - mostly on the point of how women's role in marriage isn't necessarily a liberating exercise and that women's education helps to elevate the female within the boundaries of the societal hierarchy or conduct. In fact, it was only a few years later that a proto-feminist thinker, Mary Wollstonecraft would follow up on that idea of how women ought to be educated, to best equip themselves to elevate within society through acceptable means rather than an outright assertion of your desires & female identity.

- Didi]]> 2022-10-20 08:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2348617973 Q2 response - Alexis https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2348636739 In the preface, while honouring preceding male novelists ("charmed by the eloquence of Rousseau, softened by the pathetic powers of Richardson, and exhilarated by the wit of Fielding and humour of Smollett") she also critiques them ("whence, though they have cleared the weeds, they have also culled the flowers"). If Richardson's Pamela was a seminal text in terms of establishing the epistolary device, I'm curious about what the difference between Burney's letters are in this text and that of Richardson's are. The most obvious is that Evelina contains letters by multiple other characters beside Evelina herself, allowing the reader to attain a more "holistic" perspective of her. ]]> 2022-10-20 08:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/luisalok09/18CWeek10/wish/2348636739