English @ SUNY Geneseo | Cassandra Ballini | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/cnb6/activity/ Activity feed for Cassandra Ballini. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1fb3ce026bb00fb6087e947d1cc3d856 Cassandra Ballini commented on the post, Modern Critics’ Assessment of Pip in the Dual Role of the Narrator & Protagonist , on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/12/03/modern-critics-assessment-of-pip-in-the-dual-role-of-the-narrator-protagonist/#comment-1908 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:46:15 -0500 Group 4

While we agree with Rupert Christiansen’s assessment of Pip as a highly self-critical character and narrator, we disagree that such behavior is entirely unjustified, given the way he acted throughout […]

]]> 858127e2e48e0731385e16f5348b043b Cassandra Ballini commented on the post, Negative Reviews and Criticism (Or Lack Thereof) on Dickens and A Christmas Carol, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/08/negative-reviews-and-criticism-or-lack-thereof-on-dickens-and-a-christmas-carol/#comment-567 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:43:31 -0500 Group 4 (Erin Duffy, Angie Carson, Heather McFarlane, Jacob Trost, Cassandra Ballini)

Some may say A Christmas Carol implies that Christian morals are the only correct morals, and that Scrooge is Jewish and […]

]]> 8efe2c7484c450bccc124b7450ec3637 Cassandra Ballini commented on the post, Dickens' Contemporary Critics and the Social Discussion of the New Poor Law and Workhouses, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/10/influence-of-dickens-contemporary-critics-on-social-discussion/#comment-177 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:03:16 -0500 In Group 6’s response to the blog post, they suggest that, through Dickens’ comments on Oliver’s lack of religious education, he intended to highlight the dismal lack of opportunity to receive an education among […]

]]> c015dfd495cd3b3d02c3807026679d16 Cassandra Ballini replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/why-dickens/#post-471 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:44:15 -0500 I signed up for this course because, like many other students in this class, I know very little about Dickens and, as an English lit major, this seems like an awfully conspicuous hole in my education. I’ve only ever read one book by Dickens (Great Expectations), and it was for a high school English class, so it wasn’t a very in-depth reading. I’m…[Read more]

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