Gender Issues: Day 2

"So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary,
and that everything which is usual appears natural."
The Subjection of Women (1869)

Points of Reflection

1. audience: Morgan's "A Toy Princess" (1877) targets what audience?

2. tone: wrestle with Wilde's ambiguous "The Harlot's House" (unknown; 1855 & 1908) a bit. What is the dominant tone of this poem--is there one? What do the last three stanzas signify?

3. authorial intersections: at what points does Mill's The Subjection of Women intersect Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman? Where do the text differ? Consider tone and example, as well as ideology.

"The Beguiling of Merlin" (1874)
Edward Burne Jones

Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu