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Hayley Jones commented on the post, Wilde, De Profundis, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoVery interesting commentary on the prison system in Victorian England. Wilde describes the process by which society continues to punish people post-incarceration by treating them as a lesser person. He critiques […]
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Hayley Jones edited the blog post Wilde and Tennyson in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn reading Oscar Wilde’s letter “De Profundis,” I noticed some striking similarities to the poem “In Memoriam” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Both works talk of suffering, and Wilde mentions the death of his mother, […]
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Hayley Jones edited the blog post The Benefactor in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn reading of Pip’s ascent to fortune and gentleman status, I am reminded of Heathcliff’s ascent in Wuthering Heights. Both Pip and Heathcliff are propelled to a higher social status at a young age with the help […]
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Hayley Jones wrote a new blog post We Don’t Know Anything and That’s Quite Alright in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoIn “Agnosticism and Christianity,” T.H. Huxley defines the principal behind agnosticism as the belief that “it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can […]
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Hayley Jones edited the blog post The Kids Never Had a Chance in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoIn reading all about Heathcliff’s conniving, vengeful behavior in Chapters 17-25, I am reminded of “The Steam King” by Edwin Mead. Though the character of the Steam King in Mead’s poem is supposed to represent […]
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Hayley Jones commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoHow does Cathy’s social mobility alter her relationship with Heathcliff both internally and externally (ie within herself and from a broader, societal perspective)?
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Hayley Jones edited the blog post Heathcliff and “The Cry of the Children” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoPoor Heathcliff. I’ve read Wuthering Heights once before and have always felt the most sympathy for his character, though it’s hard to root for any of the characters in Bronte’s novel wholeheartedly. As Nelly’s […]
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Hayley Jones commented on the post, Chapter 3, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoSeems like this is the first instance where we truly get background information on Heathcliff. Already, Bronte is asserting that Heathcliff is a miserable man, but there are reasons behind his behavior–here we […]
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Hayley Jones started the topic Education of Women in Victorian Era- Group 2 in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 3 years, 9 months agoAfter reading the assigned passages for our 9/10 class, Group 2 decided to zero-in on women’s education in Victorian England and found an article called “Feminist thinking on education in Victorian England” by Laura Schwartz. This article begins by asserting that the Victorian women’s rights movement did not spring up from one text or thinker…[Read more]
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Hayley Jones edited the blog post Connecting Eliot’s “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft” and Mill’s Autobiography in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 9 months agoIn George Eliot’s article called “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft,” she states that “There is in some quarters a vague prejudice against The Rights of Woman [by Mary Wollstonecraft] as in some way or o […]
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Hayley Jones commented on the post, The Everlasting Yea, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 9 months agoDid not mean to click ‘post’ before proofreading, but can’t figure out how to edit…meant to write “aspirational” rather than “aspiration” in the last line.
To conclude…I wonder, is Teufelsdrockh committing […]
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Hayley Jones commented on the post, The Everlasting Yea, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 9 months agoHere, Teufelsdrockh discusses temptation and acknowledges the fact that even the most pious humans find themselves faced with the “old Adam” inside of them which cannot “be dispossessed.” He reasons that […]
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