notes on Trollope’s Autobiography

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Week 6 Outline

“In this sense, we may go even further in our account of the ideological mission of the nineteenth century realistic novelists, and assert that their function is not merely to produce new mental and existential habits, but in a virtual or symbolic way to produce this whole new spatial and temporal configuration itself: what will come to be called “daily life”, the Alltag, or, in a different terminology, the “referent” – so many diverse characterizations of the new configuration of public and private spheres or space in classical or market capitalism” (Jameson’s “Realist Floor-Plan” (374) as excerpted in 374 in Michael’s Criticism Summary)

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Week 6 Outline

“In this sense, we may go even further in our account of the ideological mission of the nineteenth century realistic novelists, and assert that their function is not merely to produce new mental and existential habits, but in a virtual or symbolic way to produce this whole new spatial and temporal configuration itself: what will come to be called “daily life”, the Alltag, or, in a different terminology, the “referent” – so many diverse characterizations of the new configuration of public and private spheres or space in classical or market capitalism” (Jameson’s “Realist Floor-Plan” (374) as excerpted in 374 in Michael’s Criticism Summary)

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Maddie on Frankenstein in Great Expectations

In comparing Great Expectations to Frankenstein, Pip seems to imply that Magwitch is his Dr. Frankenstein. Of course, in some ways Magwitch fits that role completely. After all, as Magwitch happily proclaims many times, he is the one who makes

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Maddie on Frankenstein in Great Expectations

In comparing Great Expectations to Frankenstein, Pip seems to imply that Magwitch is his Dr. Frankenstein. Of course, in some ways Magwitch fits that role completely. After all, as Magwitch happily proclaims many times, he is the one who makes

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Danielle’s seminar paper on law in Great Expectations

From “The Law as ‘Portable Property’ in Great Expectations: Regardless of who—if anyone—maintains legal authority, the idea of the law haunts the city. Notably, Pip fears that he carries the “Newgate cobwebs” with him on his body (296), even after

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Danielle’s seminar paper on law in Great Expectations

From “The Law as ‘Portable Property’ in Great Expectations: Regardless of who—if anyone—maintains legal authority, the idea of the law haunts the city. Notably, Pip fears that he carries the “Newgate cobwebs” with him on his body (296), even after

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Cathy’s close reading of Great Expectations

Passage: It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. I told her so, and told her that I would spend any money or take any pains to

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Cathy’s close reading of Great Expectations

Passage: It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. I told her so, and told her that I would spend any money or take any pains to

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Margaret Oliphant, An Autobiography

“It pleases me at this present moment, I may confess, that I seem to have found unawares an image that quite expresses what I mean — i.e., that I wrote as I read, with much the same sort of feeling. It seems to me that this is rather an original way of putting it (to disclose the privatest thought in my mind), and this gives me an absurd little sense of pleasure.”

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Margaret Oliphant, An Autobiography

“It pleases me at this present moment, I may confess, that I seem to have found unawares an image that quite expresses what I mean — i.e., that I wrote as I read, with much the same sort of feeling. It seems to me that this is rather an original way of putting it (to disclose the privatest thought in my mind), and this gives me an absurd little sense of pleasure.”

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CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

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CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

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notes on Dickens’ Great Expectations

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notes on Dickens’ Great Expectations

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Research Exercise #4: Great Expectations’s first pages

This is hardly an exercise, more of a method of meditating on the material form of Great Expectations in preparation for our How To Treat a Victorian Novel project. 1.Take a look at a few different first pages of Great

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Research Exercise #4: Great Expectations’s first pages

This is hardly an exercise, more of a method of meditating on the material form of Great Expectations in preparation for our How To Treat a Victorian Novel project. 1.Take a look at a few different first pages of Great

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Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior

What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records

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Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior

What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records

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