English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amanda Sheps | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/amandasheps/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda Sheps. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e934d61dad022a9c66e4db044d94f46f Amanda Sheps joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14920/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 16:22:17 -0500 0 6f83bb99f78baa024cc50d1d71171216 Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post Most important thing I learned this Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14225/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:19:36 -0500 One 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 […]

]]> 0 274b8e0473f1e4a6d57472ee02b7a182 Amanda Sheps edited the blog post How Levy's descriptions match the plainness of Dickens' Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14156/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:38:57 -0500 While 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 […]

]]> 0 0070e3d4eea27b596d5746d24397c25f Amanda Sheps edited the blog post Group 5 Research: A Background of the Aesthetic Movement and an Examination of the Roles Within It in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14106/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:07:29 -0500 The Aesthetic Movement began toward the end of the 19th century. It was made up of many different kinds of art, including fine art, poetry, literature, and music. The movement was defined by the notion that […]

]]> 0 93d69252e01472efb54641a0bac7010a Amanda Sheps edited the blog post Oscar Wilde's Themes of Death Between Love Interests and How this Intersects with Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14087/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 04:15:26 -0500 Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaols an epic poem that shared many similarities in themes to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The first similarity is the descriptions of death between lovers in both texts. […]

]]> 0 0aeecbc50d2c59a5e941e965a7b66ee5 Amanda Sheps commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13998/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 02:32:46 -0500 This revelation makes me want to go back to earlier chapters and look at the clues that Dickens left to hint toward this. Did any events or narration on Pip’s part show any awareness or hints that he was just a […]

]]> 0 9cbe2d9a639740bb41ee77bb313d6310 Amanda Sheps edited the blog post The Similarities and Differences Between the Childhood to Adult Relationships seen in Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13913/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:35:22 -0500 A comparison that I noticed was the striking similarities between Heathcliff’s relationship with Catherine and Pip’s relationship with Estella. Both relationships revolve around two individuals with strong class […]

]]> 0 be744c6112bb73b19b24bfca8d79a7bd Amanda Sheps edited the blog post Comparing Hareton's childhood abuse to Pip's in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13854/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:00:15 -0500 While reading Great Expectations, I noticed that Pip shared many similarities with Hareton. Hareton, for example, was an orphan living in the house of the cruel Heathcliff. Hareton’s mother, Frances, was sickly […]

]]> 0 8cc58f64c2250c8e380c9bd9cc6ed90f Amanda Sheps joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13731/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:38:57 -0500 0 f27c789cbcdc97ca9c3c98baa487ec7a Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post How science is seen as a form of heresy in Huxley and Gosse's works. in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13668/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:36:55 -0500 When reading the assigned readings, I saw many similarities between Huxley’s Agnosticism and Christianity and Gosse’s Father and Son. In Huxley’s writings, he describes the harsh and judgmental encounters betwe […]

]]> 0 3510caec0c029d1385bc482f19ddbc6c Amanda Sheps commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13666/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:47:39 -0500 I was very interested in what Darwin had to say about resources not being unlimited, and species dying off because their countries were unable to sustain them. He begins to touch on how man has doubled in […]

]]> 0 e59bcdb200485a0e65db10590db31b8f Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post Heathcliff Among The Snow: The circumstances around his death and how it relates to Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13601/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:20:07 -0500 When I was reading the passage, some of the imagery Emily used to describe Heathcliff reminded me of the text of William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper”. One moment that specifically stood out to me was when […]

]]> 0 30424e49de5fae046292b11fc149f208 Amanda Sheps edited the blog post How Heathcliff is similar to the Mad King in Percy Shelley's "England in 1819". in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13544/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:40:03 -0500 When I was reading yesterday’s reading, many instances described in the book led me back to Percy Shelley’s poem England in 1819. The poem describes an old, dying, and mad king who is oppressing the British peo […]

]]> 0 cb95edde0bcf56868905b8319251def7 Amanda Sheps edited the blog post An analysis of how Nelly Dean embodies the themes of education influencing a woman's relationships in Wollstonecraft and Fullers' works. in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13464/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:51:13 -0500 When reading Wuthering Heights, I couldn’t help but draw a comparison between the relationships between men and women George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) discusses in her critical essay on Margaret Fuller and Mary […]

]]> 0 db428d337b8c9022da5d79bc092a66db Amanda Sheps commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13343/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:20:35 -0500 The comment was written as though Eliot was a male. Does it change your perspective of the paragraph when given the information that Eliot was actually a woman?

]]> 0 af865e0f8a04ad48fce751835606889f Amanda Sheps edited the blog post A connection between Martineau's Society in America and Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13315/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:40:45 -0500 A key difference between Martineau’s Society in America and Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present is that while Martineau’s piece calls for progressive reforms, Carlyle instead advocates for the return to medieval […]

]]> 0 770df862c876beb3dcb408aa5483a046 Amanda Sheps replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/#post-1436 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:11:10 -0500 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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