19th-CenturyAmerican
Studiesinthe
Twenty-FirstCentury
UniversityofWarwick,6-7November2015
Friday 4:30 Keynote Address (Humanities Studio)
Susan Gilman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Worlding Nineteenth-Century American Literature
English213
Lecture3
“circumlocuLon”(44)
“procrasLnaLon”(44)
“suicide”(45)
to think
…
was
to be
lost
(47)
“After the kings of Great Britain
had assumed the right of appointing
the colonial governors, the measures
of the latter seldom met with the
ready and general approbation […]
The people looked with most
jealous scrutiny to the exercise of
power, which did not emanate from
themselves, and they usually
rewarded the rulers with slender
gratitude, for the compliances, by
which, in softening their
instructions from beyond the sea,
they had incurred the reprehension
of those who gave them”