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Nineteenth-Century Studies
Public Group active 4 months agoFor courses and discussion related to any aspect of the long nineteenth century in England, the United States, and elsewhere.
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Sandy Brahaspat edited the blog post Themes Across Victorian Literature – Group 3 in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoGroup 3: Sandy Brahaspat, Mallory DelSignore, Domenica Piccoli, Jasmine Vrooman
In completing our group project, we decided to use the online software Kumu to map out prevalent connections between themes like […]
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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post Group 4: Refelction in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoGroup 4: Places That Show The Development Of Pip
By: Kathryn Capone, Emma Sens, Clare Corbett, Cameron Luquer, Kristopher Bangsil, and Isa Higgins
Our goal with this project was to delve deeper into the […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Connecting the Experiences of Women in Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoProject by Group 2- Logan Carpenter, Hayley Jones, John Serbalik, and Emily Tsoi
Blog Post Written By Emily Tsoi and Hayley Jones
Process and Challenges Faced in Creating the Project:
When we were first […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: Reflection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoFor our project, we were interested in gaining a better understanding of the role family plays in both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations. We can also begin to understand what role family plays in Victorian […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Group 1: Reflection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoThis project was inspired by, and further unearthed certain connections between, the chronology of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Both novels feature chronology as […]
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Jaffre Aether edited the blog post Group 5 Reflection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoThe aim of our project is to situate the themes of our novel in a physical and historical context. By way of this, our thematic map allows for a visualization of the physical spaces that influenced the writers […]
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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Connextions: Reflecting on this Semester in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoThe biggest takeaway I have from this semester is the connexions that I’ve made within the texts we’ve read but also across timelines. Dissecting stories like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in a way […]
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John Serbalik wrote a new blog post A “Wilde” Author in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoOscar Wilde made many contributions to the Victorian literature movement. His sexuality was a double-edged sword in his success as a. We learned in class that his intimate relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas […]
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Logan Carpenter wrote a new blog post What I’ve learned this semester in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoLast semester I took Digital Humanities with Dr. Schacht and learned so much that I decided to take another class with him this semester. He always chooses such enjoyable readings and formats the class so we all […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Victorian Connection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoIn thinking about this class as a whole, and what I would write for this blog post, I spent some time thinking about the name of the course, Victorian Connections, and what exactly that meant. I tried to think of […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Resilient Heroines of Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoAs I reflect on all of the texts that we explored this semester, it is safe to say that my initial admiration for Victorian literature stands strong as ever. Throughout the course of the semester, I was […]
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Hannah Bentivegna wrote a new blog post What I enjoyed and learned about Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoSince I am fairly new to the English major, before taking this class I had only ever taken one other English class; New Zealand Literature. Initially I was a little nervous that I would feel out of place in a 300 […]
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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post powerful women in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoAt the beginning of the year, I wondered about the roles women had women in Victorian literature, over the course I have learned a lot about this topic, and I think the most interesting thing I learned was how to […]
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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I’ve Learned in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoThe most interesting thing that I’ve learned about Victorian Literature this semester is how stark the class differences were. When I first joined this class I thought the Victorian Era wasn’t as fiercely div […]
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Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post Most important thing I learned this Semester in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoOne of the most important things I learned this semester was that stories in the Victorian era had a significant amount of political commentary. It was interesting to see views that were very similar to views […]
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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, 10 months agoWhat 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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David Beyea wrote a new blog post “Like a Bed of Oysters:” The Interconnectivity of Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoI’ve always viewed Victorian literature as the space of snobbish literary pedants, what with all the focus on nigh-puritanical cultural inhibitions and cloying romantic dialogue. And no, this class has not […]
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Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post The Finale in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoI initially came into this semester having no knowledge of Victorian literature- what novels were considered Victorian, defining features, or major authors. I even didn’t know much about the historical context a […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Above and Beyond in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoThough I began this semester wondering about the gender roles and norms that women were subject to during the Victorian period, I, inevitably and thoroughly, learned about that topic and many, many other topics […]
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Jaffre Aether wrote a new blog post Victorian Literature and Emotion in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoI suppose the most interesting thing I learned about Victorian Literature this semester was just how emotional it can be. I had already read Middlemarch prior, and was touched at the emotion and sentiment risen […]
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