English @ SUNY Geneseo | Hayley Jones | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/hayleyjones/activity/ Activity feed for Hayley Jones. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b131428df6a5083bf2427b3caf242f57 Hayley Jones commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14071/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:22:21 -0500 Very 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 […]

]]> 0 7be824f2e1f3af4f137025f37e606939 Hayley Jones edited the blog post Wilde and Tennyson in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14070/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:11:25 -0500 In 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, […]

]]> 0 3e253fd6937cfae8e6648879ae1bd083 Hayley Jones joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13940/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:22:26 -0500 0 20bacd2c6c93634fd2c8ec9a1f6bfca6 Hayley Jones edited the blog post The Benefactor in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13908/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:18:53 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 d43584b12b4b61fdacc2af0a3167ef74 Hayley Jones wrote a new blog post We Don't Know Anything and That's Quite Alright in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13667/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:20:16 -0500 In “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 […]

]]> 0 2f4a2359f28ee548eb3e6a7f4cec62ab Hayley Jones edited the blog post The Kids Never Had a Chance in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13551/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:46:19 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 f09ee80a30dc150847e952e565990aa7 Hayley Jones commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13500/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:54:21 -0500 How does Cathy’s social mobility alter her relationship with Heathcliff both internally and externally (ie within herself and from a broader, societal perspective)?

]]> 0 37ed600170028356a1d81dfd567ed026 Hayley Jones edited the blog post Heathcliff and "The Cry of the Children" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13494/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:02:26 -0500 Poor 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 […]

]]> 0 e66a7251d82c6c294d2874db5649adbd Hayley Jones commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13482/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 02:40:10 -0500 Seems 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 […]

]]> 0 8dcf1e956e51d85bb1f9776fc3c1aad7 Hayley Jones started the topic Education of Women in Victorian Era- Group 2 in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/education-of-women-in-victorian-era-group-2/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:19:38 -0500 After 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]

]]> 2b1dc82d872b185f93299be8e902d926 Hayley Jones edited the blog post Connecting Eliot's "Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft" and Mill's Autobiography in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13316/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:15:59 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 1549b9679352d61f20d120f0c94c8754 Hayley Jones commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13250/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:35:52 -0500 Did 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 […]

]]> 0 cb63956cd1fd71cad714715ab8ad9dce Hayley Jones commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13249/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:32:43 -0500 Here, 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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