Difference between revisions of "Our Mutual Friend (Dickens, 1865)"

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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Pub. 1865. Ed. Adrian Poole. Penguin: World's Classics, 1997. Print.

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
- Ch 3: Lightwood and Wrayburn going back W to E
  - "Two Londons": cab ride stitching them together
    - Franco Moretti: Map of Euro Novel
- moral and literal sewage: dust is partly shit
- How are all these ostensibly different existences connected?
  - geography, class, santitation, meterological maps - reading strategy
    - this is actually a really tightly constructed novel (unlike the sprawling BH)

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 **jump from East London slum to West End Veneerings
 ***Veneerings part of new economy of finance
+**Ch 3: Lightwood and Wrayburn going back W to E
+***"Two Londons": cab ride stitching them together
+****Franco Moretti: Map of Euro Novel
+**moral and literal sewage: dust is partly shit
+**How are all these ostensibly different existences connected?
+***geography, class, santitation, meterological maps - reading strategy
+****this is actually a really tightly constructed novel (unlike the sprawling BH)