Difference between revisions of "Our Mutual Friend (Dickens, 1865)"
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| + | * Tension between particulars and overarching geography | ||
| + | *Pairings with [[Bleak House (1853)|Bleak House]] | ||
| + | **system novels: large scale entities (Dombey too) - in this case, the economy | ||
| + | *Central character is London | ||
| + | **large scale corresponds with our focus on large scale human agency and the apprehension of one character (or one reader) | ||
| + | ** moving away from focus on human characters | ||
| + | ***divide btwn human, animal, and object troubled [cf. [[Taylor 2016]] for more] | ||
| + | *the trauma of Staplehurst train accident as he was writing OMF: extratextual crisis reverberating in the novel | ||
| + | **'''which number?''' | ||
| + | *"In these times of ours" | ||
| + | **written during the Thames embankment (pre embankment setting - the waterfront culture of the Hexams destroyed) | ||
| + | **also in the anthroposcene | ||
| + | **jump from East London slum to West End Veneerings | ||
| + | ***Veneerings part of new economy of finance | ||
Revision as of 11:32, 13 July 2017
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Pub. 1865. Ed. Adrian Poole. Penguin: World's Classics, 1997. Print.
Contents
Overall
General
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
Materiality
Shakespeare References
Seminar Notes 5/16 (Taylor Anthroposcene)
- Tension between particulars and overarching geography
- Pairings with Bleak House
- system novels: large scale entities (Dombey too) - in this case, the economy
- Central character is London
- large scale corresponds with our focus on large scale human agency and the apprehension of one character (or one reader)
- moving away from focus on human characters
- divide btwn human, animal, and object troubled [cf. Taylor 2016 for more]
- the trauma of Staplehurst train accident as he was writing OMF: extratextual crisis reverberating in the novel
- which number?
- "In these times of ours"
- written during the Thames embankment (pre embankment setting - the waterfront culture of the Hexams destroyed)
- also in the anthroposcene
- jump from East London slum to West End Veneerings
- Veneerings part of new economy of finance
