Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)

General Notes

17 interchangeability of people within clothes, as in Bleak House
33 the sergeant recites a jingle for Musical Glasses as a toast - advertising
amazing sentence about all the material things tending toward the fugitives
36-7 perception fuddled by atmosphere as they pursue the convicts to the Marshes, again reminiscent of Bleak House (though pitched differently since its through Pip's eyes vs the disembodied narrator, perhaps a little closer to Esther)
41 Pip's "cowardice" (that is his guilt and self-recrimination) - does this go through?
43 national debt - Framley mentions it was a big issue in late 1850s
60 the patterning of clocks: the Dutch clock at the Gargerys', at Satis house "everything in the room had stopped like the watch and the clock, a long time ago"
- 80 the clock stopped at 8:40
Satis House as the gothic space within the Bildungsroman, a place of weird stasis in a progressive trajectory
- impt too that this is through Pip's perspective
63 P's disquisition on injustice, followed by seeing a ghost
93-4 again Pip's guilty conscience
95 the displaced sexual energy of Miss H's relationship with estella
125 Pip returning to Satis House, the dark, gothic space which he internalizes as self-loathing and shame
183-4 Herbert the capitalist (in "look[ing] about you") and how close empire and trade are of course relared

3 Pip imagining his dead parents from the writing on their tombstones
45 Pip's slate and chalk letter to Joe
73 the tattered book for students at Mr Wopsle's great aunt's school
109 teaching Joe at the Battery
117 Pip being "read at" by Wopsle - and then refracting his sister's assault throwing that play afterwards (Barnwell)
122-3 handwriting and illiteracy with the Gargerys after Mrs Joe's assault
133 Wopsle reading aloud to other men at the pub (the newspaper)
147 Pip uncomfortable with the Bible reading at church - he seems at odds with texts as they intrude into the narrative, they're contested or inappropriate

25 Wopsle says Grace like "a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third"
44 again Wopsle reciting Mark Anthony's funeral oration from Julius Caesar to the children
77 Wopsle declaiming unspecified passage from Richard the Third, ending, "...as the poet said"
118 again Wopsle and Richard III, plus possibly misremembered King John
133 Wopsle becoming Timon and Coriolanus in reciting a murder inquest from a newspaper - though here it's Pip supplying the Shakespeare comparisons