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Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Crafting a Paradise on (Im)Possibilities through Collaboration in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago

When 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Love, Collaboration, and Spiritual Improvement in Morrison’s Jazz in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago

By: 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, […]
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: 6 years, 6 months ago

By 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Above and Beyond in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

Though 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Catherine, Judith, and Gender Norms in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

Though 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post The Benefits of Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

In 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Ghosts in Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

Wuthering 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. […]
Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Great Expectations for Catherine and Pip in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

In 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Dust and Time in “In Memoriam” and “Great Expectations” in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

While 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 […]
Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Polyptoton in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

According 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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