Periodized Bodies in Our Mutual Friend

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  • lots of good stuff to develop in Woloch 2003
  • don't forget the pawnbroker in David Copperfield (Dickens, 1850) - incomprehensibility ("Goroo!") and invocation of metonymic parts of his body ("Oh, my lungs and liver") - his "metonymic configuration" (Woloch 176)
  • what about late 1860s collected editions of D's work being published, the full body of his work? Vs his public performances, oral and embodied but partial?