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| + | *interesting how much class makes a difference in development between pen and david | ||
| + | *also Thackeray isn't interested in childhood at all whereas for Dickens it's central to the first third of the book - pen is 16 when we start | ||
| + | *also difference in character: P is a rascal where D is just undisciplined | ||
*1850 preface interesting for acknowledgement of serialization pressures | *1850 preface interesting for acknowledgement of serialization pressures | ||
*13 young Arthur's idolization of his mother like Copperfield - though Mrs P seems more deserving of the "angel" title | *13 young Arthur's idolization of his mother like Copperfield - though Mrs P seems more deserving of the "angel" title | ||
**but her "idol worship" of his father and uncle cause problems - 14 | **but her "idol worship" of his father and uncle cause problems - 14 | ||
| − | *"He had not got beyond the theory yet...prison-house" | + | *14 "He had not got beyond the theory yet...prison-house" |
==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
Revision as of 14:09, 14 June 2017
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Pendennis. Pub. 1850. Ed. John Sutherland. Oxford: World's Classics, 1999.
Transpose notes from 1875 ed to Sutherland
Contents
General Notes
- interesting how much class makes a difference in development between pen and david
- also Thackeray isn't interested in childhood at all whereas for Dickens it's central to the first third of the book - pen is 16 when we start
- also difference in character: P is a rascal where D is just undisciplined
- 1850 preface interesting for acknowledgement of serialization pressures
- 13 young Arthur's idolization of his mother like Copperfield - though Mrs P seems more deserving of the "angel" title
- but her "idol worship" of his father and uncle cause problems - 14
- 14 "He had not got beyond the theory yet...prison-house"
Theme Tracking
Reading and Writing
14 "He never read to improve himself out of school-hours, but, on the contrary, devoured all the novels, plays, and poetry on which he could lay his hands."
- 24 first writing - poetry in County Chronicle
- 26 Mr Smirke his tutor gives Pen an Elzevir horace
Materiality
- 2 material description of the Major's correspondence and his "Hot newspaper"
Shakespeare References
- 24 "he read Shakespeare to his mother (which she said she liked, but didn't)"
- 33 Foker "Mrs Dropsicum, Bingley's mother in law, Great in Macbeth"
- 48 Ms Fotheringay prepping to be Ophelia when she and Pen meet, then P quizzes her on Hamlet and Kotzebue
