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Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post How Levy’s descriptions match the plainness of Dickens’ Great Expectations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 1 minute agoWhile reading Reuben Sachs, I was impressed by the way that the text was easy to read yet said a lot. This simple, straight-forward way of writing can also be seen in Dickens’ text. Although Dickens’ texts often […]
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Shelagh Neeley wrote a new blog post Look at all The People…. in the group
Reader and Text: 9 minutes ago“And so, this became a prophetically, apocalyptically
instructive, even sibylline, moment. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk
taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted then and there, my place in t […] -
Ashley Hausrath wrote a new blog post The History of Zombies in the group
American Studies: 1 hour, 8 minutes agoIn
class this Monday, Dr. Beth talked about how there are two paths that one could
go down when talking about zombies: either the pop culture path (which has many
branches of its own and it continues to grow) or […] -
Bryan Wager wrote a new blog post Respect for the Dead in the group
American Studies: 1 hour, 13 minutes agoIn Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the story follows Mark Spitz and his fellow “sweepers”. Being a “sweeper” involves leaving the safety of the camp and ridding a designated area of Zone One of zombies. […]
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Kristopher Bangsil wrote a new blog post Romance vs Victorian Society in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 7 hours, 51 minutes agoIn Reuban Sachs, one of the elements of the plot I immediately noticed was the prevalence of romance and courtship. Much of the plot surrounds Reuben and Judith, and their relationship within both the […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Reuben Sachs and the Influence of Victorian England on Jewish People in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 12 hours, 51 minutes agoThe discrimination and marginalization of Jews in Victorian London described in this section is not surprising being that this was a time in which society worked to actively suppress groups based on criteria like […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Human Anatomy in Victorian Novels in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 13 hours, 57 minutes agoWhen I was reading Reuben Sachs, I noticed that when Amy Levy described the characters, she focused a lot on their physical appearances. She wrote about what they wore and gave descriptions of their faces with a […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Spinsters, Aged, and Unstables: The Undesirable Women of Victorian England in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 14 hours, 10 minutes agoThere is a character in Reuben Sachs who I believe deserves more attention. From her introduction and unfavorable description, I became interested in Aunt Ada. At this point however, I really only know that she […]
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Logan Carpenter wrote a new blog post Group 2 Research: Representation of the Jewish Population in England in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 15 hours, 10 minutes agoAnti-Semitism had been seen as a disease passed down from generation to generation through the medium of printed word. Some common misconceptions of Jews over the years are that they’re greedy, communists, d […]
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Amanda Neri wrote a new blog post Next time won’t you sing with me in the group
Reader and Text: 15 hours, 26 minutes agoThe other day in class we started reading a new book, called re: f (gesture). Inside this book of poems are abecedarian poems, which according to Merriam-Webster means “of or relating to the alphabet; alp […]
