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Erin Duffy wrote a new post on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 3 months ago
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, Clothing as Distinctions of Social Class: Victorian Secrets, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Group 4: Erin Duffy, Jake Trost, Heather McFarlane, Cassandra Ballini, Angie Carson
While we stand by our analysis of Miss Havisham’s wedding dress in that it represents her status as a member of a wealthy […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, Victorian Diseases and their Impact on Society, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Group 4: Erin Duffy, Jake Trost, Cassandra Ballini, Heather McFarlane, Angie Carson
While we agree with Group Three’s analysis of Dickens using smallpox as a metaphor for internal struggle, we would like to add […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, Female Sexuality in Victorian Literature, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Group 4: Erin Duffy, Angie Carson, Jake Trost, Heather McFarlane, Cassandra Ballini
Throughout his body of work, Dickens typically portrays women as heavily idealized pictures of purity. If a female character […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, “The Novel of Purpose”: Informing and Reforming Victorian England, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
While we agree with Group 2 in that both stories contain rhetorical devices that call for change, regardless of whether Dickens intended to be a reformer or not, it does make a difference in that there are […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, Negative Reviews and Criticism (Or Lack Thereof) on Dickens and A Christmas Carol, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
Group 4: Erin Duffy, Angie Carson, Cassandra Ballini, Jake Trost, Heather McFarlane
We strongly agree with Group 3’s notion that Dicken’s did not intend to focus on the Christian versus Jewish aspects of the […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, Malthusian Malpractice of the Socioeconomic Status of Poor People, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
Group 4: Jake Trost, Angie Carson, Heather McFarlane, Cassandra Ballini, Erin Duffy
The narrator of A Christmas Carol remains fairly objective in his role within the telling of the story in that although we are […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, The Influence of A Christmas Carol on how Christmas Has Come to be Understood, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
According to Group 3, Tiny Tim is used in A Christmas Carol to portray the goodness and innocence that Dickens implies is inherent in children, and that Scrooge’s corruption is a product of the neglect and abuse […]
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Erin Duffy commented on the post, Dickens’ Contemporary Critics and the Social Discussion of the New Poor Law and Workhouses, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 6 months ago
In his preface to Oliver Twist, Dickens himself states that Oliver’s behavior is his attempt as a writer to show “the principle of Good surviving through every adverse circumstance, and triumphing at last.” Oliver […]
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Erin Duffy replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 6 months ago
I signed up for this course because I have an embarrassing lack of knowledge about Charles Dickens. Although I’ve made a habit of reading (or at least thumbing through) A Christmas Carol during the holidays, his other novels have never been high on my list of things to read, despite my love of Victorian literature. When I saw this course, I…[Read more]
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Erin Duffy joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 6 months ago
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