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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Crafting a Paradise on (Im)Possibilities through Collaboration in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoWhen Dante enters the Heaven of Jupiter, he encounters the eagle of divine justice and the five souls which form the constellation of the eagle’s brow. These souls are arranged in this particular constellation b […]
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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Love, Collaboration, and Spiritual Improvement in Morrison’s Jazz in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 5 months agoBy: Rachel Balfoort, Claire Corbeaux, Yadelin Fernandez, Denis Hartnett, Randall Lombardi, Brian Vargas, Quentin Wall
When Dante and Virgil emerge once more to see the stars, they find themselves in Purgatory, […]
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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Recognizing the Destruction of Divine Justice and the Contortion of Contrapasso: The Injustice of Society and How to Fix It in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoBy Micayah Ambriz, Tommy Castronova, Alice Chen, Claire Corbeaux, Kat Johnson, Mya Nazaire, and Emily Zandy.
The Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, describes the poet’s unique and influential […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Above and Beyond in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoThough I began this semester wondering about the gender roles and norms that women were subject to during the Victorian period, I, inevitably and thoroughly, learned about that topic and many, many other topics […]
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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Catherine, Judith, and Gender Norms in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoThough women are still burdened by many different paradoxical and unfair standards today, my knowledge of Victorian literature seems to indicate that intensely contradictory and unrealistic norms have always been […]
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Wilde, De Profundis, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 10 months agoThis entire paragraph discusses Wilde’s lack of attachment to religion.
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Wilde, De Profundis, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 10 months agoHere Wilde claims that religion cannot help him.
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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post The Benefits of Reflection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoIn both Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, the reader is presented with a reflective, and, at least partially, regretful narrator. Though Pip represents a fictional narrator and […]
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Chapter 59, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 10 months agoEstella’s vision has been unclouded by the passing of years and the life experiences that she has accumulated. She is finally able to recognize the significance that Pip had upon her life and the place he has in her heart.
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Chapter 54, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 11 months agoThis paragraph pays substantial attention to boats and lists many different kinds of boats and details the form and function of said boats. This concern with and extensive description of boats makes me think back […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Ghosts in Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoWuthering Heights ends with a striking and iconic depiction of ghosts when a young boy perceives the spectral Heathcliff and Catherine upon the heath, roaming the earth together in an atypically active afterlife. […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Great Expectations for Catherine and Pip in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoIn both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations, the audience sees the novels’ respective protagonists, Catherine and Pip, rise from “obscurity” and “coarseness” to higher social stations. For Catherine, this […]
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Chapter 26, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 11 months agoWhat does Mr. Jaggers mean by “‘You know what I am, don’t you?'” How can one begin to answer this question? And why is Mr. Jaggers so fascinated with Drummle, yet so insistent that Pip stays away from him?
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Chapter 26, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 11 months agoWhy does Mr. Jaggers wash his hands, and even, at times, wash his face and “gargle his throat” after seeing clients? What does this practice suggest about his internal life versus his daunting outer life as a […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Dust and Time in “In Memoriam” and “Great Expectations” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoWhile reading the beginning of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, I experienced a fair amount of anticipation with regards to meeting the infamously eccentric character, Miss Havisham. I knew that Miss Havisham […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Polyptoton in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoAccording to Erik Gray in his essay, “Polyptoton in In Memoriam: Evolution, Speculation, Elegy” Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, “In Memoriam,” utilizes an interesting and particular scheme of repetition that is k […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post The Life and Ideologies of Thomas Malthus in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoThomas Malthus was an influential English economist who began his career as a demographer, studying the ebbs and flows of the English population. Eventually, Malthus entered the field of economics in opposition […]
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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Chambers, Babbage, Lovelace, and the Importance of Models in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 12 months agoWhile reading Robert Chambers’ Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, I was surprised to see the name of Charles Babbage embedded within the text and was even more surprised to see Chambers quote and employ […]
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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post The Illusion of Time in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoSomething that has always fascinated me about Wuthering Heights is the strange, all-consuming cycle that rages across generations; wrecking one entirely and nearly destroying the second. This cycle’s presence […]
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Claire Corbeaux commented on the post, Chapter 34, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoThe fact that the little boy can see the spirits of Heathcliff and a woman, presumably Cathy, makes me think back to the conversation Prof. Schacht engaged the class in on Thursday’s class. Can we attribute the […]
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