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*176 clematis -- "old man's beard" -- Edward Thomas | *176 clematis -- "old man's beard" -- Edward Thomas | ||
*180 the fatality of Charmond not renewing Giles's lease contributing to the later frustration of her desire for Fitzpiers - class and property conspiring against desire | *180 the fatality of Charmond not renewing Giles's lease contributing to the later frustration of her desire for Fitzpiers - class and property conspiring against desire | ||
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==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
Revision as of 13:12, 19 April 2017
Contents
General Notes
- it seems like we come sideways into the main narrative: the central individuals are less important than community and landscape
- 5 pastoral solitude contrasted with communal awareness
- 14 "lifehold" lease on property - perhaps a lower class version of the life interest in property of the wealthy?
- 70ff Winterbourne's Christmas party - the way class difference is externally set in the yeoman farmer class, Grace had to go away to make itreally apprent
- 115 the frisson of Grace and Fitzpiers' first encounter
- 120 Grace is socially beneath Fitzpiers
- 123 "The secret of happiness lay in limiting the aspirations"
- 134-5 some pretty freely represented casual sex between Suke and Fitzpiers
- 142 parental pressure on Grace to accept fitzpiers
- 149 "retrospective criticism" of Grace's origins if Fitzpiers purchases a practice in another towb
- what would a contemporary audience have made of Fitzpiers' irreverent view of marriage? Would they have felt unsettled as Grace does on the next page?
- 151 F has been having it off with Suke
- 171 Felice: "Women are always carried about like corks upon the waves of masculine desires."
- 176 clematis -- "old man's beard" -- Edward Thomas
- 180 the fatality of Charmond not renewing Giles's lease contributing to the later frustration of her desire for Fitzpiers - class and property conspiring against desire
- 183 the nature of Grave's feelings for Fitzpiers
Theme Tracking
Reading and Writing
Materiality
Shakespeare references
- 10 "The palm [Marty's] was red and blistering, as if her present occupation were as yet too recent to have subdued it to what it worked in." Sonnet 111, "the dyer's hand"
- 26!"...a soul's specific gravity constantly reasserts itself as less than that of the sea of troubles into which it is thrown." About Melbury - Hamlet "to be" soliloquy, as the note suggests a very specific, labored yoking of literary imagery to scientific language about relative density
