Difference between revisions of "The Way We Live Now (Trollope, 1875)"
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*11: "He [Booker] was quite adept at this sort of work, and knee well how to review such a book as Lady Carbury's Criminal Queens, without bestowing much trouble on the reading. He could almost do it without cutting the book, so that it's value of after sale might not be injured." | *11: "He [Booker] was quite adept at this sort of work, and knee well how to review such a book as Lady Carbury's Criminal Queens, without bestowing much trouble on the reading. He could almost do it without cutting the book, so that it's value of after sale might not be injured." | ||
*22 Hetta Carbury's face was a "true index" to her character: '''could you trace the link between indexical/informational forms of literature and understanding character? Has anyone?''' | *22 Hetta Carbury's face was a "true index" to her character: '''could you trace the link between indexical/informational forms of literature and understanding character? Has anyone?''' | ||
| + | *73 "Melmotte had the telegraph at his command, and had been able to make as close inquiries as though San Francisco and Salt Lake City had been suburbs of London." | ||
| + | **its not so much that it's new technology as that it's a relatively new tech in the service of globalized capital | ||
===Shakespeare References=== | ===Shakespeare References=== | ||
*7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare" | *7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare" | ||
Revision as of 13:03, 26 June 2017
General Notes
- 29 "It was a ball on a scale so magnificent that it had been talked about ever since Parliament met, now about a fortnight since." -- interesting technique for keeping the narrative feeling temporally proximate: "now"
- 30 Melmotte the financier introduced
- 52 the verbal patterning of indeterminacy - Montague's father might have had money, Lady c doesn't quite know what attending to her profligate son would entail - track
- 60-1 perhaps in Roger's refusal to have anything to do with the Melmottes a conflict between the class system and the rank system? He disdains the duchesses' condoning of Melmotte and espouses rural bourgeois gentry values. Interesting that capital takes up with rank
- 62 "A social connection with the first crossing-sweeper would be less objectionable" -- Bleak House (1853)
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
- 11: "He [Booker] was quite adept at this sort of work, and knee well how to review such a book as Lady Carbury's Criminal Queens, without bestowing much trouble on the reading. He could almost do it without cutting the book, so that it's value of after sale might not be injured."
- 22 Hetta Carbury's face was a "true index" to her character: could you trace the link between indexical/informational forms of literature and understanding character? Has anyone?
- 73 "Melmotte had the telegraph at his command, and had been able to make as close inquiries as though San Francisco and Salt Lake City had been suburbs of London."
- its not so much that it's new technology as that it's a relatively new tech in the service of globalized capital
Shakespeare References
- 7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare"
