Dire Cartographies by Margaret Atwood

Author:Margaret Atwood
Language: spa
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. John Gardner, Grendel, 1971.

2. The Tempest’s Golden Age is in Act II, Scene 1.

3. Underground fairylands and other worlds are numerous. I’ll mention only two: George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie (1883) and Aubrey Beardsley’s Under the Hill (1896).

4. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an engaging preface to Treasure Island in which he describes this process.

5. Escape from caverns via animal tracking is a very old motif. See, for instance, One Thousand and One Nights.

6. “Copper cylinders”: See James de Mille, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, 1888.

7. “Hell hath no limits,” Doctor Faustus, Scene 5, pp. 120–135. “Paradise,” Paradise Lost, lines 585–7.

8. Honours English: a now-defunct course at the University of Toronto that covered everything from Anglo-Saxon to T. S. Eliot.

9. At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald (1871) contains a huge flying female character—the North Wind—with an astonishing amount of hair.

10. “Someone once said…” Scott Symons, in conversation with the author.

11. Sexual dimorphism in fairy fantasy writing was common in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, often featuring a large, long-haired female and a small boy. (See, for instance, Jean Ingelow, Mopsa the Fairy, 1910.) In later incarnations such as She and The Lord of the Rings, power substitutes for size.

12. Victorian Fairy Painting is the catalogue of the 1997 exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

13. Tennyson and train tracks: “Locksley Hall,” 1835.

14. The “city upon a hill” phrase was quoted by George W. Bush, twice, 2000 and 2001.

15. Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, 2010; Eduardo Sguiglia, Fordlandia, 2000.

16. Emile Zola, Germinal, 1885.

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