Difference between revisions of "Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)"
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*42 second time she's mentioned "character study," first Paulina and now Mrs Marchmont | *42 second time she's mentioned "character study," first Paulina and now Mrs Marchmont | ||
*43 disease heralded by atmospheric change? | *43 disease heralded by atmospheric change? | ||
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==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
===Reading/writing=== | ===Reading/writing=== | ||
===Materiality=== | ===Materiality=== | ||
Revision as of 12:07, 1 April 2017
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
