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*96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra | *96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra | ||
*106 fate again with reconnecting to Dr John | *106 fate again with reconnecting to Dr John | ||
+ | *107 "he laid himself open to my observation" -- narration as espionage, which is explicitly thematized or represented through Mdme Beck | ||
==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== |
Revision as of 14:04, 1 April 2017
Contents
General notes
- 15 Lucy's "overheated and discursive imagination" vs Paulina
- Paulina's monomania - Nelly says heathcliff is a monomaniac in Wuthering
- 17 "cup did not foam up" when Paulina and father reunited --CB dampening melodramatic expectations as in first chapter of shirley
- 20 Graham to Paulina: "I reckon on being able to get out of you a little of that precious commodity called amusement"
- a pre Marxian sense, as Freedgood 2006 would say
- 23 graham threatening to cut up the engraving Paulina likes to light candles
- 34 race and missionary English identity in Paulina's book
- 38 "We should be friendly to all, and worship none."
- 39 "the nightmare"; metaphorizing her depression (?) as falling overboard
- 41 mourning dress - gradual revelation
- 42 second time she's mentioned "character study," first Paulina and now Mrs Marchmont
- 43 disease heralded by atmospheric change?
- 49 vision instigated by Aurora borealis
- 62 vision of Europe followed by school copybook disavowal
- 71 "fate and providence" leading her to Madame Beck's pensionnat
- 82-3 compare description of school and pedagogy to Lowood in Jane Eyre
- 96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra
- 106 fate again with reconnecting to Dr John
- 107 "he laid himself open to my observation" -- narration as espionage, which is explicitly thematized or represented through Mdme Beck
Theme Tracking
Reading/writing
Materiality
Shakespeare allusions
- 78 "the head and front of her [Mrs Sweeny] offending" Othello