Difference between revisions of "The Way We Live Now (Trollope, 1875)"

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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)
190 [Lord Alfred telling Melmotte how easily a baronetcy could be bought] Indeed, there was no knowing what honors might not be achieved in the present days by money scattered with a liberal hand.
- his satire is pointed but is this really such a characteristic of the then present age or just exacerbated?

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?
- 196 Mrs Hurtle's true vs made-up features
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
the theme of the breakdown between writing and truth: Lady carbury's factless sensational history (82), her doubt that her son tells her the truth in writing but that she believes in him anyway (397), the IOUs from the Bear garden that are worthless (186) - this cluster of images of writing not worth the paper they're on plugging into the theme of uncertainty and rumor
340 As for many years past we have exchanged paper instead of actual money for our commodities, so now it seemed that, under the new Melmotte regime, an exchange of words was to suffice

7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare"

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 **its not so much that it's new technology as that it's a relatively new tech in the service of globalized capital
 *the theme of the breakdown between writing and truth: Lady carbury's factless sensational history (82), her doubt that her son tells her the truth in writing but that she believes in him anyway (397), the IOUs from the Bear garden that are worthless (186) - this cluster of images of writing not worth the paper they're on plugging into the theme of uncertainty and rumor
+*340 As for many years past we have exchanged paper instead of actual money for our commodities, so now it seemed that, under the new Melmotte regime, an exchange of words was to suffice
 ===Shakespeare References===
 *7 Lady Carbury's Criminal queens: "Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from shakespeare"