She followed my ideas and said that it ...sounded like I had something that ....sounded like an actual project, and to get her a draft of my prospectus by the week of February 16th.
Here are some notes I scribbled down at the meeting:
Must include Jekyll and Hyde. It will seem like a major oversight if I don't.
Stevenson and Doyle can share a chapter to make room for Jekyll and Hyde as the "extra" popular representations.
I should look at other Doyle novels.
I should read Wells' realist texts and use those as a bench mark.
She mentioned something about Virginia Woolf making fun of the Victorian realists, but I couldn't get it down. All I have is "Woolf" and "evacuation" in my notebook.
I have to think about what I'm noticing as trends that go up and down. Dynamic synchronic version (of history).
Right now the short list includes:
1. HG Wells (The Time Machine, 1895, The Invisible Man, 1897)
2. Bram Stoker (Dracula, 1897)
3. Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, 1887-1902)
4. Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1896)
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