Difference between revisions of "The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy, 1887)"

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==General Notes==
 
==General Notes==
 
*it seems like we come sideways into the main narrative: the central individuals are less important than community and landscape
 
*it seems like we come sideways into the main narrative: the central individuals are less important than community and landscape
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**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?
 
*14 "lifehold" lease on property - perhaps a lower class version of the life interest in property of the wealthy?
  

Revision as of 10:47, 17 April 2017

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?

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"