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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: Reflection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 5 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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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Reshaping my understanding of Victorian lit in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoPrior to this class, I tended to avoid Victorian Literature like the plague. I’m not totally sure why; maybe I always associated it with intolerable run-on sentences, or maybe it was PTSD from high school English […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: The Necessity for Autonomy in the Jewish Community in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoUpon its publication in the late 19th century, Reuben Sachs was denounced by the Jewish community and the mainstream press for its seemingly anti-Semitic themes. This is a criticism that Richa Dwor contends with […]
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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: 3 years, 6 months 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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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post A Plea for Change in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde offers commentary on his time in prison. While both are significant, I am more interested in the latter. The Ballad of Reading Gaol describes events […]
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Abbey Morgan commented on the post, Chapter 49, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoThis shows how Miss Havisham’s view of Pip changes. She sees him through a “looking-glass” that, not only allows her to see Pip’s perspective, but also to empathize with him by equating their experiences.
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post The Parallels of Pip and Magwitch in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoWhat stood out to me the most in these last chapters of Great Expectations was the similarities, as well as the differences, between Pip and Magwitch. As we come to learn in chapter 42, Magwitch was an orphan […]
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Abbey Morgan commented on the post, Chapter 35, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoThe role of nature that was such an important theme to the Romantics has all but disappeared in the much more urban and industrialized settings common of Victorian literature. Sometimes the theme peeks through, as […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Class & Marriage in the Victorian Era in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoAs I was reading the chapters for this week, I was struck by something in Herbert’s story. In chapter 22, he explains to Pip the tragedy of Miss Havisham and the wedding that never was. In his description of Miss […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post The Unreliable Narrator in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIt is interesting to read Great Expectations and realize that the story is not being told in “real time” but rather that Pip is retrospectively narrating experiences from his life. That begs the question: just […]
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Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Victorian Serial in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoSerialization, the printing format by which a larger narrative story is broken up and published in miniature installments, was the dominant publishing format of the Victorian age. These installments were […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights and the Endurance of Trait in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoAs I was reading the excerpts from Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and considering what I already knew about Darwin, my mind kept going back to the second generation featured in Wuthering Heights. Something t […]
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Abbey Morgan edited the blog post Thomas Huxley and the Issue of Social Darwinism in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoIn Michael S. Helfand’s article, “T.H.Huxley’s ‘Evolution and Ethics’:The Politics of Evolution and the Evolution of Politics”, Helfand refutes what he considers a common misconception about T.H. Huxley’s […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Heathcliff as the Subject of “England 1819” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoWuthering Heights may end on a relatively hopeful note, but that does not erase how wholly heartbreaking the novel is. One of the most dismal aspects of the story being the way that Heathcliff becomes what he […]
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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post No Son of Mine in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoAs I was reading these chapters of Wuthering Heights, I could not help but focus somewhat on the relationship between Heathcliff and his son, Linton. The father and son first meet when Linton is 12 years old, as […]
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Abbey Morgan commented on the post, Chapter 24, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoThe disagreement between Linton and Young Cathy over their idea of a perfect day highlights how they are not actually compatible as a couple, and perhaps not even as friends. But what do their individual fantasies […]
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Abbey Morgan commented on the post, Chapter 4, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoTo what point does the language used in reference to Heathcliff in this passage serve? How does it contrast the others’ views on him later in the story?
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Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Feminism of Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoSomething that strikes me in Wuthering Heights, and especially interests me because I do not recall it from high school, is the portrayal of the female characters. Of course, it is much less surprising than if […]
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Abbey Morgan commented on the post, The Cry of the Children, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 9 months agoThis line, paired with line 12, “In the country of the free,” shows a juxtaposition between England at the height of its industrial revolution, and America at the same time. In England, where the poem essentially […]
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Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Retailoring of Society in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 9 months agoThe excerpt from Harriet Martineau’s Society in America, “Political Nonexistence of Women,” deals with a concept established in the Declaration of Independence: consent of the governed. Specifically, Martineau […]
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