English @ SUNY Geneseo | Alaina Walier | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/awalier/activity/ Activity feed for Alaina Walier. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9ae0df39275bdd25daf6fcda9feeab7c Alaina Walier wrote a new blog post Women Shaping Content in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14214/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:27:56 -0500 I find the most interesting and also my favorite thing I learned about Victorian literature was the way women writers used their work to shape the public look on the woman’s roll and the patriarchy. I was not […]

]]> 0 4d0b54a6e74c843209ef015128194612 Alaina Walier edited the blog post Levy and Wilde: oppression leads to great art in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14142/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:21:09 -0500 After reading the Levy novel Ruben Sachs I could not help but look into the life and inspiration of the author. It is clear she is writing her work from a feminist perspective and commenting on the patriarchal […]

]]> 0 bfb5044504f8ea1460060ec4f81132e6 Alaina Walier edited the blog post Defining Prison in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14068/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:06:26 -0500 While reading Wilde’s account of prison I could not help but think of Catherine in Withering Heights. I made the connection based on each persons head-space and how they felt about their surroundings. Catherine […]

]]> 0 24c17a6c6010bfa65669ef08f8b41124 Alaina Walier commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14008/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:47:53 -0500 This meeting in a good marker in time to show how Pip is changing over the course of the story. How do you think his perspective on the convict has changed and why? Do you think Pip is right to judge the way he is […]

]]> 0 b0330e22e4bf9f0ab495d62d287866d6 Alaina Walier started the topic Infanticide and Sadism in Wuthering Heights (Group 5) in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/infanticide-and-sadism-in-wuthering-heights-group-5-2/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:37:10 -0500 he article “Infanticide and Sadism in Wuthering Heights” by Wade Thompson claims that the love that Catherine feels for Heathcliff is not the normal storybook romance. She loved Heathcliff as a child and it does not equate to the love she may feel as an adult. The main argument in the article states that, due to her childlike nature and possible…[Read more]

]]> b2a15f20a7a241255703d7ba047fda9b Alaina Walier wrote a new blog post Linton is selfish in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13561/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:27:55 -0500 Last class we discussed a quote that Nelly where claimed everyone in the world of Wuthering Heights is selfish whether it be just or not. Our discussion focused on Heathcliff and while I agree that he can […]

]]> 0 0dd65e6838776d92d5df6b6eba80c1cb Alaina Walier edited the blog post How Catherine’s ghost relates to the past in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13461/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:23:19 -0500 The complex histories and connections to the past these first few chapters describe paired with the appearance of Catherine’s ghost made me wonder about what the novel is trying to say about connections with the […]

]]> 0 9451ad46110f30eff3c37ba230c14934 Alaina Walier joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13147/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:40:05 -0500 0 4d0eb875dd88a5ee237c08b86ee087aa Alaina Walier 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-1433 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:10:50 -0500 Great Expectations

]]> a1919f726ba6624a15d88be6d92bc6f3 Alaina Walier joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13088/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:03:51 -0500 0 4b15ade506bbbdc860294ec52e02d26c Alaina Walier became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13077/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:02:30 -0500 0