Monday, July 25, 2016

Another brick in place

I seem to have completed a draft of chapter 7 of my literature book, concerning Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now.  Here is the layout so far:

PART 1: WHY THE SUPER-RICH, AND WHY LITERATURE?

1. Introduction

2. The Mapmaker’s Dilemma in Evaluating High-End Inequality

PART 2: ENGLAND AND FRANCE DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Introduction to Part 2

3. Why Aren’t Things Better Than This? Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

4. A Rising Tide Rocks All Boats: The Threat of Rising Prosperity in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir

5. The Arriviste as Morally Compromised Cat’s Paw: Balzac’s Le Père Goriot and La Maison Nucingen

Summing Up Part 2

PART 3: ENGLAND FROM THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY THROUGH THE START OF WORLD WAR I

Introduction to Part 3

6.  Art, Heart, and “Schmart” in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

7.  Don’t Blame Them? Plutocrats, Capitalism, and Foreigners in Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now

Chapter 8, which will conclude Part 3, is almost certainly going to discuss E.M. Forster's Howards End.  I have thought about discussing Saki's The Unbearable Bassington, which I love, but choosing Forster is probably preferable on multiple grounds.

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