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==Generally Notes==
 
==Generally Notes==
 
*6 already a tension (light and funny) between individual and social identity - D wondering if he will be the hero of his own story and then going back to the hours before his birth, recounting Betsey Trotwood talking about his father and then calling his mother "Baby" to, again, play with the reference to self
 
*6 already a tension (light and funny) between individual and social identity - D wondering if he will be the hero of his own story and then going back to the hours before his birth, recounting Betsey Trotwood talking about his father and then calling his mother "Baby" to, again, play with the reference to self
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*7 potential alternative identities: Betsey Trotwood Copperfield
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==

Revision as of 07:35, 15 May 2017

Charles Dickens. David Copperfield. Pub. 1849-50. Ed. Nina Burgis and Andrew Sanders. Oxford: World's Classics, 2008.

Generally Notes

  • 6 already a tension (light and funny) between individual and social identity - D wondering if he will be the hero of his own story and then going back to the hours before his birth, recounting Betsey Trotwood talking about his father and then calling his mother "Baby" to, again, play with the reference to self
  • 7 potential alternative identities: Betsey Trotwood Copperfield

Theme Tracking