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Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Prison System: The Most Interesting Topic I Learned About The Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months ago

When this class first began in August, I knew very little about Victorian literature and I was unsure of what to expect. However, as the class progressed, I learned more than I was anticipating. Some of my […]
Clare Corbett edited the blog post Judaism During the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months ago

While reading Reuben Sachs, a passage about religion stood out to me. On page 24, it states that Lee-Harrison “joined a set of mystics, and lived for three months on a mountain, somewhere in Asia Minor. Now he […]
Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Prison Conditions During The Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months ago

While reading The Ballad of Reading Gaol, the part in which Oscar Wilde discussed the conditions of prison struck me. He questions how one man could place another man in such an awful setting. His true feelings […]
Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Relationship Between Social Ranking and Love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago

While reading Great Expectations, Pip’s concern with his social standing stood out to me because he decided that he could not love Estella and have a high social ranking. In chapter 43, Pip asks himself “why […]
Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Strong Female Characters In Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago

While reading Great Expectations, Estella’s description stood out to me. In line 15 of chapter 22, she is described as being “brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.” Due to heartbreak f […]
Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Orphans During the Victorian Age in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago

Upon reading Great Expectations, Pip’s character stood out to me because he reminded me of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. Both Pip and Heathcliff were orphaned as young children, which caused them to face […]
Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Concept of Religion During the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 12 months ago

As seen in many of the pieces we have read this semester, religion was a large part of the Victorian Era. The father in Father and Son based many of his beliefs on science and realized that “there had been […]
Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post The Concept of Masters in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years ago

As I was reading the remaining chapters of Wuthering Heights, the term “master” kept reappearing. In Chapter 30, the master tells Zillah to “walk out of the room” and “let [him] never hear a word more about h […]
Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Heathcliff’s Relation to Lower-Class Victorian Children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years ago

While reading chapter 17 of Wuthering Heights, a passage describing Heathcliff stood out to me. The narrator states that he had “been a stranger in the house from last Sunday till to-day. Whether the angels […]
Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Struggles of Poor Victorian Children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years ago

While reading Wuthering Heights, my heart ached for the child who was taken in by the Earnshaw’s. He was heavily mistreated by the family because of the way he looked and his position in society. As the evening […]

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