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*38 "We should be friendly to all, and worship none."
 
*38 "We should be friendly to all, and worship none."
 
*39 "the nightmare"; metaphorizing her depression (?) as falling overboard
 
*39 "the nightmare"; metaphorizing her depression (?) as falling overboard
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**41 mourning dress - gradual revelation
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
===Reading/writing===
 
===Reading/writing===
 
===Materiality===
 
===Materiality===

Revision as of 16:56, 29 March 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"
  • 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

Theme Tracking

Reading/writing

Materiality