English @ SUNY Geneseo | Domenica Piccoli | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/domenicapiccoli/activity/ Activity feed for Domenica Piccoli. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f40af46f88870ed7779d8530154b2f0a Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Most interesting thing I've learned in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14223/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:51:25 -0500 What a question! So much.

I feel like I have learned so many interesting things. I think Prof Schacht did a great job in selecting the texts for this semester. It made for interesting reads as we could tie […]

]]> 0 b951b5d59f652c05f6327a21cda7037c Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Class and Love (also through faces?) in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14140/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:37:01 -0500 One thing, that I didn’t connect to anything lol, in particular that stuck out to me in reading Reuben Sach is the tremendous detail in this novel. The details make the novel so interesting and conveys a sense of […]

]]> 0 fbda1723bc9bfbe5114bd5de9909b473 Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14100/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:09:50 -0500 I was immediately surprised by paragraphs 1 and 2. In paragraph 1,  I was surprised by the language used. “Socialists are so often FORCED to use.” I think the tone here is interesting, it conveys dete […]

]]> 0 9ea66d2a4cff236e126df901ef2a99a3 Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Morality in the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14061/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:27:54 -0500 While reading Oscar Wilde, De Profundis. One quote really stuck out to me. “Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that […]

]]> 0 d1d6e9e0542210dc5dbf638c228a2c3b Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Relationship Deja Vu in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13997/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 02:04:00 -0500 The parallels between Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations continuously jump out at me as we continue to read this novel. Relationships in the Victorian Era have a weird dynamic, especially when we see a […]

]]> 0 f73709f030859edf6757719f81a4e84d Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Honesty VS Dishonesty in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13892/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:52:38 -0500 One thing that struck my interest with the chapters for this weeks reading was the idea of honesty. The theme of honesty overall is very prevalent throughout Great Expectations. It is evident that Joes goodness […]

]]> 0 164ca0f3a78d70efc7af6140df5e4def Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13862/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 01:23:49 -0500 I am super interested in the development of Pips character throughout this piece. Is he honest? Is he a good person? Does he care for others? How will all the things we know of him as of now change? The divide in […]

]]> 0 ac5e2526119ec2f8801b2c04a550e90b Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Parallels between Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13838/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:05:08 -0500 The first thing I noticed about Great Expectations was how Dickens portrays the social structure and romance of the victorian era. I saw a lot of parallels to characters from Wuthering Heights with the […]

]]> 0 164f5a372c77519426be4b56e8b95b5f Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Dependency in Victorian Lit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13664/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:53:11 -0500 In “On The Origin of Species by Natural Selection,” one part stuck out to me particularly : “THE TERM, STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE, USED IN A LARGE SENSE.I should premise that I use this term in a large and metap […]

]]> 0 901fccb84815fd44ad9affe3a05087c3 Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13630/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:04:12 -0500 This goes along with my thoughts about the setting in my other comment on the whole page. (paragraph 73 and 74). Here it states how Cathy and Hareton will be married soon and they are going to the Grange. What […]

]]> 0 08ff3f5f4293c794c06a1cb35aed9588 Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13629/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:56:55 -0500 As we got to the end of the novel, I became really curious as to Bronte’s use of setting in Wuthering Heights. At first I thought back to the beginning chapters with all the descriptions of both Wuthering H […]

]]> 0 ffde30f491f510520664b082f92ac5ad Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Normalities in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13602/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:42:02 -0500 Wuthering Heights was a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading. In the last chapters, I found myself questioning a few of the characters. I almost looked at the ending as how Heathcliff’s everlasting wish for his l […]

]]> 0 5fcc2e7540b8bd4a8ae655adac43236a Domenica Piccoli started the topic Emily Bronte's Religious Criticisms - Group 3 in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/emily-brontes-religious-criticisms-group-3/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 02:30:47 -0500 In our attempt to find contextual information for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Group 3 was particularly struck by the influence of Christianity in Brontë’s text and found an interesting book titled The Bronte’s and Religion by Marianne Thormahlen. In Chapter 1, “A Christian Home in Early 19th Century England: Evangelicalism, Dissent, and the…[Read more]

]]> 48ba3b25a52c2ab5687353693677209e Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Sympathy for Children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13556/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:57:34 -0500 While continuing to read Wuthering Heights, I can’t help but feel sympathy for the children. In The Cry of the Children, freedom is spoken about in regard to children and animals, how animals had more freedom t […]

]]> 0 365ecea433308247e5fd06c5ab1f606a Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Contrasting Stereotypes of the 18th Century in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13458/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:44:11 -0500 Catherine Earnshaw is one character who I am so intrigued by. She has this independence quality to her which defies certain aspects of Victorian stereotypes during the 18th century. Interestingly enough, […]

]]> 0 74a3f72b068353664de9189d3989d20b Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13346/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:22:59 -0500 we should add “uncommon at this time in history”

]]> 0 dab7d0dae7c94c1c2bcb1ecb75d616f0 Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13338/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:10:55 -0500 As it was uncommon for women to express their grievances like this in a public manner, what do you think enabled Harriet Martineau to express her views on womens rights? How is this similar to Mary Wallstonecraft? […]

]]> 0 e9d1d3d4e0b2fed754a97d0746611905 Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Connection on Readings Blog Post in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13312/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:54:07 -0500 In Thomas Carlyle’s Captains of Industry, government is brought up a lot in the first few paragraphs. In summary, it states how government can help but cannot do it all, and how government is a direct symbol of […]

]]> 0 1a27a1cc59550d8e59e8eb7a8ddf6f03 Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13270/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 01:50:21 -0500 [ if Industry is ever to be led]

This invites me to feel like anyone can lead the industry and it is only a matter of who will step up. It also leads me to think who can lead the industry? Who specifically is […]

]]> 0 5d3707e5470de3c98ab3d922bf7c99c9 Domenica Piccoli commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13269/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 01:48:18 -0500 I am particularly interesting in this paragraph because there is a negative tone in regard to this time of industrialization. However, this is not an uncommon view from writers of this time period. The […]

]]> 0 06b5fda53ceef243c7bb3deb3b4bddcc Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post What I hope to learn about Victorian literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13243/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:16:45 -0500 Truthfully, I know nothing about Victorian Literature. However, prior to registering for this course, I did just a little bit of research. I have come to learn that this literature came before a time of […]

]]> 0 e66bad582fc0fa3e13c086669aa38905 Domenica Piccoli 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/page/2/#post-1447 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:13:22 -0500 I don’t have one yet!

]]> 66bee7bd0950f4c071513e914d8d3f05 Domenica Piccoli joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13063/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:29:32 -0500 0 ab3086598ae5ac4db7d270a255be165e Domenica Piccoli joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13062/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:29:31 -0500 0 0b92be3ef55fb773f5e107f9f468f121 Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post How Does Technology Make People Unsociable? in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12822/ Wed, 08 May 2019 17:54:33 -0500 I want you to really examine those pictures. I stumbled across them on facebook, I know ironic because this post is about how we have been unsocialized by such social media and technological devices.

When […]

]]> 0 4fe3a3afe83f8295f7e6d6e63473e1a9 Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Looking Back On Something I Said.. in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12794/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:04:17 -0500 Our final project for ENGL 340 is very research based. My group and I have been spending quite some time in the special collections archives of the Milne Library to gather old articles, newspapers, yearbooks and […]

]]> 0 4c25440e6fbbd083b0f33852aa463c3b Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Be YOU in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12570/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:32:45 -0500 I wanted to start this post with a quote from Thoreau’s Solitude, “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.” Thoreau seems to have a thematic ideal in this piece that escaping from hum […]

]]> 0 8080c16dad9aad8dbf0ae2544adedb12 Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Learning is Growing in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12548/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:35:15 -0500 They say that you are the pilot for your own path of learning. In taking this course, I really feel like I have taken that role of being in charge of my own learning in a whole new direction. A direction that at […]

]]> 0 35a4d050538e9430fb4e6ee7249c9683 Domenica Piccoli edited the blog post Communication Differs in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12502/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:50:59 -0500 In the beginning weeks of this course we read the novel, The Information by James Gleick. I’d like to express how absolutely interesting the book was to me as it opened my eyes to aspects of information, c […]

]]> 0 6e2ccd628c727daf3b312e46a7d68d49 Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Learning the Digital Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12280/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:14:41 -0500 In English 340 we have been collectively discussing the digital humanities. Some topics we have touched on have been the transformation or development of language, the technological influences over our […]

]]> 0 ccaa0f48b361191b7ccd311d842be3c4 Domenica Piccoli joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12015/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:07:43 -0500 0 cb23d7ecadbd8ddc2fb9152229a36a4d Domenica Piccoli became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12013/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:07:22 -0500 0