In her diary, mother writes that her "longing to invent stories grew with VIOLENCE" - criminal trait, degeneration Preface is offered as a document, what does it do? "an initial stage or state from which something may develop" How is nature vs nature shown in his mother? "was my mother intended by nature to be a novelist" "I gathered very dilligently all I could about greek - it was not much, but it was a GERM" OED definitions of germ: "primal source of life" Father reacts with fury and mentions that "God poured down brimstone and fire on Cities of the plain" which relates to sodomy.
Most importantly: how does Edmund describe his learning?" "In PRIVATE I returned to examine my steel engravings" - exciting, dangerous temptations. What does Edmund do when he sees the greek books and statues? How does father react? > only when readers recognise imaginative structure / images / dramatic detail, can we appreciate it as literary rather than a literal biography. What is the text littered with about his father? What does this do for reader's understand of father? Devastating compliments for father "unusually humane" - these words leave reader in no doubt that father's religious motivated desire for control verged on the tyrannical What does Edgar Johnson say about F+S and book details? Book details selected with all the unerring craftsmanship of a mastery novelist.
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