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Revision as of 21:22, 5 February 2017
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Pub. 1860. Ed. Gordon Haight and Juliette Atkinson. Oxford: World Classics, 2015.
Contents
General Notes
- Set 1820s -- post napoleonic but pre 1832 reform act
- 10: figurative language is puzzling
- 12, 19, 30, 42, 80 descent/inheritance of traits
* 37, 44, 82 speciation * 53 Gradations in civilization * 54 kin vs others * 57 Breeding/mixing blood * 68 deformity in the person of Philip Wakem * Persistent comparison of the children to animals of course because Darwin had broken down that barrier * Eliot read Origin while writing this
- 13 foreshadowing
- 15, 328 hotspur Shakespeare
* 357 Sir Andrew * 464 pocket Shakespeare
- 17-18 reading Defoe
- 24 metafictional/generic
- 27: Maggie's fetish
- 32 unmodifiable characters
- 37 dignified alienation, species
- 51-2 the Dodsons' retrograde gentility in the person of mrs Glegg
- 53 how heavily they expect Tulliver to fail by discussing what would happen to Glwgg's money
- 66 historical difference in religiosity
- 106 the gypsy adventure is through Maggie's psychological geography as well
- 160 metafictive
- 252 again metafictive, obscure vitality, sordid, prosaic --> realism
- Worldliness without side-dishes reminds me of bronte's lentils in Shirley
- 253 there is nothing petty to the mind that has a large vision of relations
- 267 thomas a kempis
- 280 quite wise
- 371 character is destiny - novalis (but later hardy in Mayor too)
- 382 renunciation again
- 442 Maggie reckoning with Stephen
Theme tracking
Tulliver and "puzzling" language (& other interesting uses of figurative/imaginative language)
- 10
- 15
- 19
- 22
- 29
- 33
environment
- 11
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 27
- 31
reading/writing
- 11
- 15-17 Maggie showing off to Mr Riley
- 19
- 21
- 22
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 33
femininity
- 12
- 13
- 17
- 19
- 23
- 26
- 32
- 34
- 36
materiality
- 13
- 18
- 21
- 27
narratorial intervention
- 14
- 19
- 24 metafictive
- 25
- 31
- 35
- 37
We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other. We no longer approximate in our behaviour to the mere impulsiveness of the lower animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like members of a highly civilized society. Maggie and Tom were still very much like young animals[.]
labor/industrial spaces/economics
- 28
evolution/inheritance/Darwinian
- 12, 19, 30, 42, 80 descent/inheritance of traits
- 37, 44, 82 speciation
- 53 Gradations in civilization
- 54 kin vs others
- 57 Breeding/mixing blood
- 68 deformity in the person of Philip Wakem
- Persistent comparison of the children to animals of course because Darwin had broken down that barrier
- Eliot read Origin while writing this
