English @ SUNY Geneseo | Abbey Morgan | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/amorgan/activity/ Activity feed for Abbey Morgan. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 48d961c698cc00195ad6a5ba939a1baa Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14573/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:44:37 -0500 For 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 […]

]]> 0 5d0e7038fbebc7195632a4fa64c882c9 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Reshaping my understanding of Victorian lit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14213/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:50:31 -0500 Prior 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 […]

]]> 0 9ebabdf7f70044ec7abf134276100fe9 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: The Necessity for Autonomy in the Jewish Community in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14175/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:16:37 -0500 Upon 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 […]

]]> 0 a559d9b2b49f6c3d4dcc55339a7999ee Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Spinsters, Aged, and Unstables: The Undesirable Women of Victorian England in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14148/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:29:42 -0500 There 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 […]

]]> 0 27649a3411568cb8dbedef7631fd5d78 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post A Plea for Change in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14065/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:06:06 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 a0ccdf8b725d071fcbaaf3b632f7abe6 Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14026/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:38:35 -0500 This 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.

]]> 0 88d96a0e10ff3f216246ac550f917fd4 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post The Parallels of Pip and Magwitch in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14005/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:25:25 -0500 What 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 […]

]]> 0 89da3c56eb90cccd3dc5fdd1a10a35b8 Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13937/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:50:36 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 8a98168fbe076f73211e1824ea4b177b Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Class & Marriage in the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13903/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:48:52 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 d32e398b1c3f0416c2f92a67ed54a76b Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post The Unreliable Narrator in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13839/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:28:19 -0500 It 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 […]

]]> 0 70985f8b6953cb434da35d77a38ae151 Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Victorian Serial in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13836/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 02:14:49 -0500 Serialization, 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 […]

]]> 0 ccfa2932efcbe506448db5b5c3be2185 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights and the Endurance of Trait in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13685/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 05:00:33 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 eae06de353ece8c6e0a9465becb4ac86 Abbey Morgan edited the blog post Thomas Huxley and the Issue of Social Darwinism in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13684/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 04:32:22 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 5d6fda0b3ab58c39306189c567fa9260 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Heathcliff as the Subject of "England 1819" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13620/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:35:58 -0500 Wuthering 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 […]

]]> 0 4897050530e521fa92865ba6f9468d64 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post No Son of Mine in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13547/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:35:37 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 67edfe0c3e0e49945b607edf70da70e9 Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13543/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:29:44 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 01bb48b4c804699054e24046a1903002 Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13496/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:51:49 -0500 To 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?

]]> 0 d762e7ba4723fc07fc3b9c83d7ab14a2 Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Feminism of Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13485/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:07:08 -0500 Something 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 […]

]]> 0 42168f779ed2b5e9aff797711d819801 Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13394/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:18:24 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 82ff08a00d722ad8b031e5ed4643e04f Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Retailoring of Society in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13324/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:05:44 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 213bdde2a2d25011892f21880d7fafc2 Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13285/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:42:40 -0500 More specifically, where does Mill place the blame for this transition? What was he searching for in the journey that brought him to this end, and what are other consequences of it?

]]> 0 f4d4d3a9496b354b8901f212711382ef Abbey Morgan commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13282/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:34:17 -0500 Mill juxtaposes the concepts of vanity and ambition, and in a moment of self-realization criticizes his venture into vanity at too young an age. Ambition, he maintains however, is necessary. At what point does one […]

]]> 0 3e45e763a8d9412ae263a7e5c382a2cb Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post How to Understand Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13251/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:54:13 -0500 The idea of “Victorian Literature” as a category or a sort of genre is a bit confusing to me. I feel that the various “Victorian” pieces of literature I have read have little in common. Of course, the […]

]]> 0 d6e1d3ccc3064adf5faa1f3112daa7e9 Abbey Morgan joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13139/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:39:09 -0500 0 1b08110c12d5776bf7205589e38e5990 Abbey Morgan 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-1432 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:10:28 -0500 “The Critic as Artist” – Oscar Wilde

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