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  • Set 1820s -- post napoleonic but pre 1832 reform act
  • 10: figurative language is puzzling
  • 12, 19, 30, 42, 80 descent/inheritance of traits
   * 37, 44, 82 speciation
   * 53 Gradations in civilization
   * 54 kin vs others
   * 57 Breeding/mixing blood
   * 68 deformity in the person of Philip Wakem
   * Persistent comparison of the children to animals of course because Darwin had broken down that barrier
   * Eliot read Origin while writing this
  • 13 foreshadowing
  • 15, 328 hotspur Shakespeare
   * 357 Sir Andrew
   * 464 pocket Shakespeare 
  • 17-18 reading Defoe
  • 24 metafictional/generic
  • 27: Maggie's fetish
  • 32 unmodifiable characters
  • 37 dignified alienation, species
  • 51-2 the Dodsons' retrograde gentility in the person of mrs Glegg
  • 53 how heavily they expect Tulliver to fail by discussing what would happen to Glwgg's money
  • 66 historical difference in religiosity
  • 106 the gypsy adventure is through Maggie's psychological geography as well
  • 160 metafictive
  • 252 again metafictive, obscure vitality, sordid, prosaic --> realism
  • Worldliness without side-dishes reminds me of bronte's lentils in Shirley
  • 253 there is nothing petty to the mind that has a large vision of relations
  • 267 thomas a kempis
  • 280 quite wise
  • 371 character is destiny - novalis (but later hardy in Mayor too)
  • 382 renunciation again
  • 442 Maggie reckoning with Stephen