English @ SUNY Geneseo | Erin Duffy | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/eed8/activity/ Activity feed for Erin Duffy. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1313c29dd1ebf15c69c0ae7cac3c4423 Erin Duffy wrote a new post on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=225 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:41:26 -0500 ThumbnailGroup Members: Erin Duffy, Nivedita Rajan, Max Garnaat, Matt Spitzer, & Alexis Donahue

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The purpose of this project was to research the correlation between Charles Dickens’ writings and personal […]

]]> fdc3b302c8890039806f1373fabc3cf7 Erin Duffy commented on the post, Clothing as Distinctions of Social Class: Victorian Secrets, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/12/clothing-as-distinctions-of-social-class-victorian-secrets/#comment-1301 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:00:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 94347ab62ea3efe921e0f63b12446fe7 Erin Duffy commented on the post, Victorian Diseases and their Impact on Society, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/05/victorian-diseases-and-their-impact-on-society/#comment-1079 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:03:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 2477d2fda2c92119832f186cfbfaae13 Erin Duffy commented on the post, Female Sexuality in Victorian Literature, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/28/female-sexuality-in-victorian-literature/#comment-884 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:43:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 86227d32af3abe7c46993bcbd65feae6 Erin Duffy commented on the post, "The Novel of Purpose": Informing and Reforming Victorian England, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/22/the-novel-of-purpose-informing-and-reforming-victorian-england/#comment-699 Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:02:33 -0500 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 […]

]]> 642cfde3e2a33f97c6039b50c92fcda3 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 http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/08/negative-reviews-and-criticism-or-lack-thereof-on-dickens-and-a-christmas-carol/#comment-581 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:32:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> 2eda62c69ecd7923ea0f173bf80f9c38 Erin Duffy commented on the post, Malthusian Malpractice of the Socioeconomic Status of Poor People, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/29/malthusian-malpractice-of-the-socioeconomic-status-of-poor-people/#comment-548 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:06:49 -0500 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 […]

]]> 3722822fb463d6e6daf897c6a81ec285 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 http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/24/the-influence-of-a-christmas-carol-on-how-christmas-has-come-to-be-understood/#comment-504 Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:26:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7b08f611c00867bca632165f7c6c59ee 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 http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/10/influence-of-dickens-contemporary-critics-on-social-discussion/#comment-74 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:23:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9a3bfb7da74676d54b48d3c3fa08abae Erin Duffy replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/why-dickens/#post-469 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:41:39 -0500 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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