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Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post Most important thing I learned this Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Sheps edited the blog post How Levy’s descriptions match the plainness of Dickens’ Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 9 months ago

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. […]
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: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Sheps edited the blog post Comparing Hareton’s childhood abuse to Pip’s in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]

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