Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Wow, that actually started to sound like chapter summaries.

Hmm...could this be a sign that I've narrowed down my texts from that slightly overweight list I provided earlier?

I think I still need Dickens to get my foot in the door, and I really don't want to let go of Wilkie Collins.

The other tricky thing here is that both of those potentially excluded authors would provide the works with female protagonists - Laura from The Woman in White and Esther from Bleak House. Would I really have to get into a whole gender discussion to acknowledge that I've chosen three novels written by white men about white men? I mean, it could easily be explained that the archetype of the "man of science" was presumably male...

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