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*82-3 compare description of school and pedagogy to Lowood in Jane Eyre
 
*82-3 compare description of school and pedagogy to Lowood in Jane Eyre
 
*96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra
 
*96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra
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*106 fate again with reconnecting to Dr John
  
 
==Theme Tracking==
 
==Theme Tracking==

Revision as of 15:01, 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"
  • 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
  • 62 vision of Europe followed by school copybook disavowal
  • 71 "fate and providence" leading her to Madame Beck's pensionnat
  • 82-3 compare description of school and pedagogy to Lowood in Jane Eyre
  • 96 serial character studies structure: Paulina, Marchmont, Beck, Ginevra
  • 106 fate again with reconnecting to Dr John

Theme Tracking

Reading/writing

Materiality

Shakespeare allusions

  • 78 "the head and front of her [Mrs Sweeny] offending" Othello