Difference between revisions of "Middlemarch (Eliot, 1872)"

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* 18 D offering to organize her uncle's papers and indirectly Casaubon's, like a secretary
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**i bet secretarial manuals would be a good source for practical information organization
  
 
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Revision as of 13:27, 21 September 2017

General

  • 9 Eliot tweaking lazy physiognomy description in saying that Celia looks more worldly-wise than D

Theme tracking

Reading/writing

  • 18 D offering to organize her uncle's papers and indirectly Casaubon's, like a secretary
    • i bet secretarial manuals would be a good source for practical information organization

Materiality

  • 8 interesting (and useful for me) that the gendered question of idealism vs materialism is pitched in Dorothea as between books and fabric
She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in guimp [fabric trimmings] and artificial protrusions of drapery.

Shakespeare references

  • 7 epigram to ch 1 from Beaumont and Fletcher, which she almost certainly knew from Dyce's eds