That has been said. The previous sentence paraphrases W. H. Auden’s statement that the ‘absolutely banal is my sense of my own uniqueness’, The Dyer’s Hand (New York: Vintage, 1989), 95
Dying, Egypt, dying, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. 15. 1. 18
Oxford
Hold on, Yazz and the Plastic Population, ‘The Only Way Is Up’. By George Jackson and Johnny Henderson. Produced by Jonathan More and Matt Black (Coldcut). Big Life. 1988. Vinyl
describe Emma Bovary’s sunshade, Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (London: Mariner, 1982), 385, and the Nabokov archive in Cornell – I am grateful to L Deladurantaye’s article ‘Kafka’s Reality and Nabokov’s Fantasy’, Comparative Literature, 59/4, 315–331, 318, for guiding me to this
one should notice and fondle, Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, 1
she has a child, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Maude, 685
a children’s book, ibid., 685
All disguise in Shakespeare is benevolent, Oxford University, Honour School of English Language and Literature 1999–2001
There are two copies of this book that matter, Kate Gross, Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About this Magnificent Life) (London: William Collins, 2015), front matter
Here’s the catch, Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (London: Melville House, 2016), 45
sly state of half becoming, Hilary Mantel, Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (London: 4th Estate, 2010), 229
Not known, because not looked for, T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding in Four Quartets (London: Faber, 1950), 44
less important than the fact that they do whatever it is together, that they know how to spend time together, Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 88
banal commonplace that everyone knows, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (London: 4th Estate, 2013), 283
cancel myself out, ibid., 283
byway of tenderness, Gérard Genette, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 120
The last word is not said, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 163
Further reading and sources
On Sofia Tolstoy
Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, foreword by Doris Lessing, tr. Cathy Porter (Richmond: Alma Books, 2010)
Bartlett, Rosamund and Benn, Anna, Literary Russia: A Guide (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 2007)
Bendavid-Val, Leah, Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy (New York: National Geographic Society, 2007)
On Leo Tolstoy
Catalogue of L. N. Tolstoy’s Library in Iasnaia Poliana, ed. N. V. Kotrelev, vol. 3 (Tula: Iasnaia Poliana, 1999)
Bartlett, Rosamund, Tolstoy: A Russian Life (London: Profile, 2010)
Cruise, Edwina, ‘Tracking the English Novel in Anna Karenina: Who Wrote the English Novel that Anna Reads?’, in Donna Orwin, ed., Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 159–82
Gareth Jones, W., Tolstoi and Britain (Oxford: Berg, 1995)
Goubert, Denis, ‘Did Tolstoy Read East Lynne?’, Slavonic and East European Review, 58 (1980), 22–39
Knapp, Liza, Anna Karenina and Others (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016)
Mandelker, Amy, Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994)
Morson, Gary Saul, Anna Karenina in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lectures on Russian Literature (New York: Harcourt & Brace & Co., 1981)
Parini, Jay, The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy’s Final Year (London: Canongate Books, 2007)
Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel, Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother (London: Macmillan, 1998)
Shepard, Maria, Anna Karenina: A New Musical (2016)
Simmons, Ernest J., Leo Tolstoy (London: John Lehmann, 1949)
Stenbock-Fermor, Elisabeth, The Architecture of Anna Karenina (Lisse: The Peter de Ridder Press, 1975)
Sutherland, John, ‘What English Novel is Anna Karenina Reading?’ in John Sutherland, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 219–23
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina, tr. Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina, tr. Nathan Dole (London, 1886) [the edition that Kate Field would have read]
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina: The Maude Translation, edited with a revised translation by George Gibian (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1970)
Tolstoy, Leo, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Tolstoy, Count Ilya, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, tr. George Calderon (London: Chapman and Hall, 1914)
Turner, C. J. G., A Karenina Companion (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993)
Wilson, A. N. Tolstoy (London: Atlantic, 2013)
On translation
Bartlett, Rosamund, ‘Tolstoy Translated’, Financial Times, 8 August 2014, www.rosamundbartlett.com/website/Articles.html
Boym, Svetlana, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994)
On Kate Field and her travels
Cudahy, Brian J., Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World (New York: Fordham University Press, 1995)
De Leeuw, R. M., Both Sides of Broadway (New York: De Leeuw Riehl Publishing Co., 1910)
Field, Kate, Kate Field’s Washington: A National Independent Review published every Wednesday in Washington D. C. and New York, 1891 – (11 volumes)
Field, Kate, Planchette’s Diary (New York: Redfield Press, 1868)
Field, Kate, Selected Letters, ed. Carolyn J. Moss (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996)
Field, Kate, ‘On Visiting Pullman’, Kate Field’s Washington (11 July 1894)
Geberer, Raanan, ‘The 19th Century’s High Line’, http://www.nypress.com/local-news/20151117/the-19th-centurys-high-line
Gordon, Sarah Barringer, ‘“The Liberty of Self-Degradation”: Polygamy, Woman Suffrage and Consent in Nineteenth-Century America’, The Journal of American History, 83/3 (Dec. 1996)
Louden-Brown, Paul, The White Star Line: An Illustrated History 1869–1934 (UK: Ship Pictorial Productions, 1992)
Marcus, Sharon, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007)
Reed, Robert C., The New York Elevated (South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1978)
Scharnhorst, Gary, Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008)
Stamp, Jimmy, ‘Traveling in Style and Comfort: The Pullman Sleeping Car’, Smithsonian.com: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/traveling-style-and-comfort-pullman-sleeping-car-180949300/
White, John H., The American Railroad Passenger Car (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978)
Whiting, Lilian, Kate Field: A Record (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899)
On Anthony Trollope
Glendinning, Victoria, Anthony Trollope (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993)
Grennan, Simon, Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words (London: Jonathan Cape, 2015)
Hall, N. John, ed., The Letters of Anthony Trollope, 2 volumes (California: Stanford University Press, 1983)
Trollope, Anthony, An Autobiography and Other Writings, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Trollope, Anthony, Can You Forgive Her?, ed. Dinah Birch (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2012)
Trollope, Anthony, Early Short Stories, ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Trollope, Anthony, The Eustace Diamonds, ed. Helen Small (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Trollope, Anthony, The Prime Minister, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
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Trollope, Anthony, The Way We Live Now, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
On stuff
Byrne, Paula, The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (London: HarperPress, 2013)
Connor, Steven, Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (London: Profile Books, 2011)
Miller, Daniel, The Comfort of Things (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008)
Schor, Naomi, Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine (London: Routledge, 2007)
On trains
Ackroyd, Peter, London Under (London: Vintage, 2012)
Attlee, James, Station to Station: Searching for Stories on the Great Western Line (London: Guardian Books, 2015)
Bailey, Peter, ‘Adventures in Space: Victorian Railway Erotics, or Taking Alienation For a Ride’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 9/1 (2004), 1–21
Bissell, David, ‘Encountering stressed bodies: slow creep transformations and tipping points of commuting mobilities’, Geoforum, 51 (2014), 191–201
Brooks, Michael W., Subway City: Reading the Trains, Reading New York (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997)
Conrad, Joseph, The Return, ed. Colm Tóibín (London: Hesperus Press, 2014)
Davies, Tony, ‘Transports of Pleasure: Fiction and Its Audiences in the Later Nineteenth Century’ in Formations of Pleasure, ed. Fredric Jameson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983), 45–58
Day, John R. and Reed, John, The Story of London’s Underground (London: Capital Transport Publishing, 2010)
Freeman, Michael, Railways and the Victorian Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
Halliday, Stephen, Underground to Everywhere: London’s Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital (Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2013)
Hayles, David, ‘Pulp Fiction for the Victorian Traveller’, The Times, 17 July 2010
‘The Kiss in the Tunnel’ (1899), https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/railways-on-film
Löfgren, Orvar, ‘Motion and Emotion: Learning to be a Railway Traveller’, Mobilities, 3/3 (2008), 331–351
MacNeice, Louis, Autumn Journal (London: Faber, 2012)
MacNeice, Louis, ‘Train to Dublin’ in Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2007), 17–18
Martin, Andrew, Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube (London: Profile Books, 2012)
Nesbit, E., The Railway Children (London: Puffin Classics, 2018)
Parissien, Steven, The English Railway Station (Swindon: Historic England, 2014)
Сапсан: Seven Years of the Sapsan Train (17 December 2016)
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Urizen Books, 1979)
Westwood, J. N., A History of Russian Railways (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1964)
Wolmar, Christian, The Subterranean Railway (London: Atlantic, 2012)
On loss, death and bereavement
Barnes, Julian, Levels of Life (London: Vintage, 2014)
Dillon, Brian, In the Dark Room (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018)
Gladwell, Malcolm, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (London: Penguin, 2014)
Gross, Kate, Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About this Magnificent Life) (London: William Collins, 2015)
Hill, Geoffrey, ‘In Memoriam: Gillian Rose’ in A Treatise of Civil Power (London: Penguin, 2007)
Lucie-Smith, Edward, ‘The Lesson’, A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961)
Mannix, Kathryn, With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (London: William Collins, 2017)
Mantel, Hilary, Beyond Black (London: 4th Estate, 2014)
Miller, David, Today (London: Atlantic Books, 2011)
Picardie, Ruth, Before I Say Goodbye (London: Penguin, 1998)
Porter, Max, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (London: Faber & Faber, 2015)
Porter, Max, ‘Kneeling Shepherd’, Guardian, 28 January 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/28/max-porter-kneeling-shepherd-im-david-miller-saturday-poem
Roiphe, Katie, The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (London: Virago, 2016)
Rose, Gillian, Love’s Work (New York: New York Review of Books Classics, 2011)
Schulz, Kathryn, ‘When Things Go Missing: reflections on two seasons of loss’, The New Yorker, 13 February 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/when-things-go-missing
Solnit, Rebecca, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017)
Straten, Giorgio van, In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes (London: Pushkin Press, 2017)
Tighe, J. R. and Davies, D. R., Pathology (London: Ballière Tindall, 1988)
On love and marriage
Barnes, Julian, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Vintage, 2009)
Botton, Alain de, Essays in Love (London: Picador, 2015)
Cavell, Stanley, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981)
Connolly, Cyril, Enemies of Promise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Drabble, Margaret, A Summer Bird-Cage (London: Penguin, 1973)
Godwin, Gail, The Odd Woman (London: Virago, 2001)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Elective Affinities: A Novel, tr. David Constantine (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008)
Heti, Sheila, How Should a Person Be? (London: Vintage, 2014)
Knight, India, In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier (London: Penguin, 2015)
Knight, India, My Life on a Plate (London: Penguin, 2000)
Lurie, Alison, The War Between the Tates (London: Vintage, 1994)
Penner, Barbara, Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (University of New Hampshire Press, 2009)
Perel, Esther, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (London: Yellow Kite, 2017)
Phillips, Adam, Monogamy (London: Faber & Faber, 1996)
Riley, Gwendoline, First Love (London: Granta, 2017)
Roiphe, Katie, In Praise of Messy Lives (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2013)
Tobin, John, The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Five Acts (London: David Longworth, 1805)
Updike, John, Marry Me (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977)
On being a child, and on having and not having children
Adébáyò, Ayòbámi, Stay With Me (London: Canongate, 2017)
Beauvoir, Simone de, When Things of the Spirit Come First (London: Flamingo, 1983)
Binchy, Maeve, ‘Shepherd’s Bush’ in Victoria Line, Central Line (London: Arrow, 2006)
Drabble, Margaret, The Millstone (London: Canongate, 2014)
Enright, Anne, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004)
Johnson, Barbara, ‘Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion’, Diacritics, 16/1 (Spring 1986), 28–47
Jenkins, Alan, A Shorter Life (London: Chatto & Windus, 2005)
Mantel, Hilary, Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (London: 4th Estate, 2010)
Moran, Caitlin, How to Be a Woman (London: Ebury, 2012)
Townsend, Sue, The Secret Diary and Growing Pains of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (London: Penguin, 2017)
Wallace, David Foster, ‘Little Expressionless Animals’ in Girl with Curious Hair (London: Abacus, 1997)
On bags
Beckett, Samuel, Happy Days in The Complete Dramatic Works (London: Faber, 1986), 135–68
Dagognet, François, ‘Éloge d’un Métaobjet’ in Le Cas du Sac, sous la direction de Farid Chenoune (Paris: Hermès, 2004)
Hiner, Susan, Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Jakobson, Roman and Halle, Morris, ‘The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles’, in Fundamentals of Language (Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2002)
Le Guin, Ursula, ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’, Dancing at the Edge of the Wor
ld (London: Grove Press, 1989)
Lurie, Alison, The Language of Clothes (New York: Owl Books, 2000)
Ridge, Emily, Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
Ropert, Axelle, ‘12 films, 12 sacs. Une anthologie’ in Le Cas du Sac, sous la direction de Farid Chenoune (Paris: Hermès, 2004)
On photography
Barthes, Roland, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, tr. Richard Howard (London: Vintage, 2000)
Bassham, Ben L., The Theatrical Photographs of Napoleon Sarony (Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1978)
Berger, John, Understanding a Photograph, ed. Geoff Dyer (London: Penguin, 2013)
Brewer, John, Out of the Ether: A Wet Plate Collodion Handbook (John Brewer, 2017)
Calvino, Italo, ‘The Adventure of a Photographer’, Difficult Loves (London: Mariner Books, 1985)
Pauwels, Erin, ‘Resetting the Camera’s Clock: Sarony, Muybridge & the aesthetics of wet-plate photography’, History and Technology, 31/4 (October 2015), 482–491
Vestey, Joanna, ‘Afterwords’ in Custodians (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and Oxford University Press, 2015)
On reading
Baker, Nicholson, U & I: A True Story (London: Granta, 2001)
Barnes, Julian, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Picador, 1984)
Bayard, Pierre, How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (London: Bloomsbury, 2007)
Flint, Kate, ‘Traveling Readers’ in The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature, ed. Rachel Ablow (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 27–46
Halpern, Daniel, ed., Literature as Pleasure (London: Collins Harvill, 1990)
Mendelson, Edward, The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (London: Anchor Books, 2007)
Miller, Andy, The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life (London: 4th Estate, 2014)
Smith, Ali, Artful (London: Penguin, 2013)
Stewart, Garrett, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
On space and time
Abrahamson, Eric and Freedman, David H., A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014)
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