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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Most interesting thing I’ve learned in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
What a question! So much.
I feel like I have learned so many interesting things. I think Prof Schacht did a great job in selecting the texts for this semester. It made for interesting reads as we could tie […]
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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Class and Love (also through faces?) in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
One thing, that I didn’t connect to anything lol, in particular that stuck out to me in reading Reuben Sach is the tremendous detail in this novel. The details make the novel so interesting and conveys a sense of […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Morris, How We Live and How We Might Live, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 4 months ago
I was immediately surprised by paragraphs 1 and 2. In paragraph 1, I was surprised by the language used. “Socialists are so often FORCED to use.” I think the tone here is interesting, it conveys dete […]
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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Morality in the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
While reading Oscar Wilde, De Profundis. One quote really stuck out to me. “Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that […]
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Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Relationship Deja Vu in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
The parallels between Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations continuously jump out at me as we continue to read this novel. Relationships in the Victorian Era have a weird dynamic, especially when we see a […]
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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Honesty VS Dishonesty in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
One thing that struck my interest with the chapters for this weeks reading was the idea of honesty. The theme of honesty overall is very prevalent throughout Great Expectations. It is evident that Joes goodness […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Chapter 15, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 5 months ago
I am super interested in the development of Pips character throughout this piece. Is he honest? Is he a good person? Does he care for others? How will all the things we know of him as of now change? The divide in […]
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Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Parallels between Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
The first thing I noticed about Great Expectations was how Dickens portrays the social structure and romance of the victorian era. I saw a lot of parallels to characters from Wuthering Heights with the […]
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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Dependency in Victorian Lit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
In “On The Origin of Species by Natural Selection,” one part stuck out to me particularly : “THE TERM, STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE, USED IN A LARGE SENSE.I should premise that I use this term in a large and metap […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Chapter 34, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 5 months ago
This goes along with my thoughts about the setting in my other comment on the whole page. (paragraph 73 and 74). Here it states how Cathy and Hareton will be married soon and they are going to the Grange. What […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Chapter 34, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 5 months ago
As we got to the end of the novel, I became really curious as to Bronte’s use of setting in Wuthering Heights. At first I thought back to the beginning chapters with all the descriptions of both Wuthering H […]
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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Normalities in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
Wuthering Heights was a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading. In the last chapters, I found myself questioning a few of the characters. I almost looked at the ending as how Heathcliff’s everlasting wish for his l […]
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Domenica Piccoli started the topic Emily Bronte's Religious Criticisms – Group 3 in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies 4 years, 6 months ago
In our attempt to find contextual information for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Group 3 was particularly struck by the influence of Christianity in Brontë’s text and found an interesting book titled The Bronte’s and Religion by Marianne Thormahlen. In Chapter 1, “A Christian Home in Early 19th Century England: Evangelicalism, Dissent, and the…[Read more]
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Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Sympathy for Children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
While continuing to read Wuthering Heights, I can’t help but feel sympathy for the children. In The Cry of the Children, freedom is spoken about in regard to children and animals, how animals had more freedom t […]
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Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Contrasting Stereotypes of the 18th Century in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
Catherine Earnshaw is one character who I am so intrigued by. She has this independence quality to her which defies certain aspects of Victorian stereotypes during the 18th century. Interestingly enough, […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Martineau, Society in America, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 6 months ago
we should add “uncommon at this time in history”
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Martineau, Society in America, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 6 months ago
As it was uncommon for women to express their grievances like this in a public manner, what do you think enabled Harriet Martineau to express her views on womens rights? How is this similar to Mary Wallstonecraft? […]
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Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Connection on Readings Blog Post in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
In Thomas Carlyle’s Captains of Industry, government is brought up a lot in the first few paragraphs. In summary, it states how government can help but cannot do it all, and how government is a direct symbol of […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Captains of Industry, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 6 months ago
[ if Industry is ever to be led]
This invites me to feel like anyone can lead the industry and it is only a matter of who will step up. It also leads me to think who can lead the industry? Who specifically is […]
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Domenica Piccoli commented on the post, Captains of Industry, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 6 months ago
I am particularly interesting in this paragraph because there is a negative tone in regard to this time of industrialization. However, this is not an uncommon view from writers of this time period. The […]
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