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Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 8 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Reshaping my understanding of Victorian lit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: The Necessity for Autonomy in the Jewish Community in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Spinsters, Aged, and Unstables: The Undesirable Women of Victorian England in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post A Plea for Change in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post The Parallels of Pip and Magwitch in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Class & Marriage in the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post The Unreliable Narrator in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan edited the blog post The Victorian Serial in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights and the Endurance of Trait in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]

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