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passionate love for it.
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And so, sometimes people approach it in that way, and I think in a way it
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holds that aura around itself in our culture and in the history of the
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novel in this period that we're studying together.
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I'm going to talk a little bit about its publishing history,
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its compositional history, actually, at the end of my two
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lectures on the novel.
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So, I would ask you just to reserve whatever curiosity you
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have about that.
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So, in a way, I'm flipping my usual practice;
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I would tell you a little bit about its publication history
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at the beginning.