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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Building a Better World in the group
American Studies: 1 year agoWhat I love most about human beings is the ability for us to change our minds. When we learn new information, we can use it to change the way we think and create something even better. New ideas, art, poetry, […]
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Hannah Fuller edited the blog post The Power of Orogeny and Geological Events in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 3 months agoWhen I think of power and justice, there are many images that come to mind. There are also many images that don’t (or didn’t) come to mind–images like earthquakes or volcanoes or other geological events. What […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Universal Connection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoIn my first blogpost, I wrote about being excited to learn about the characteristics of Victorian literature–the what that this literature is made up of. Before coming into this class, my idea of Victorian […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Human Anatomy in Victorian Novels in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoWhen I was reading Reuben Sachs, I noticed that when Amy Levy described the characters, she focused a lot on their physical appearances. She wrote about what they wore and gave descriptions of their faces with a […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Hand Me Down Justice in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn Oscar Wilde’s letter “De Profundis,” Wilde writes that some of the things he was accused of and sent to prison for were correct but some were not true at all. His letter, at least to me, seemed a little […]
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Hannah Fuller commented on the post, Chapter 57, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoHere is a place where Pip’s perspective changes. Now that he realizes that what he once had wanted so bad was no longer attainable, he wanted to go back to Biddy and live a life with her. He is aware of his […]
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Hannah Fuller posted a new page, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 3 years, 7 months ago
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Hannah Fuller edited the blog post Estella in the Sea, Catherine in the Clouds in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoWhen Pip goes to see Miss Havisham and Estella presumably for one last time, he tells Estella once again about his love for her. She shakes her head at his confession and tells him that he will get her out of his […]
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Hannah Fuller commented on the post, Chapter 30, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoThis scene where Pip is being openly mocked by the tailor’s assistant grabbed my attention because Pip does nothing about it in the moment. He makes it sound like he narrowly escaped from his tormentor and then […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Revenge, Revenge, Revenge in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoAlthough we don’t get the full story of Miss Havisham’s past, Herbert does tell Pip some things about her that he didn’t previously know, shedding a little bit of light onto her obscure past. We find out that the […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Working Children in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn Great Expectations, Pip is too young to be an apprentice to his sister’s husband, the blacksmith, so he completes random jobs to make money, none of which he ever sees. This money is assumed to be used to help […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Catherine, Heathcliff, and Ensemble as Insects on the Bank of Their Own Cultivation in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoIn Darwin’s, On the Origin of Species, I came across a very interesting passage about chance vs. cultivation. Darwin writes about how when looking at different plants and bushes on a bank, we are tempted to […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Romanticism and Spirits in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoAt the time the events of Wuthering Heights were taking place, the idea of Romanticism was combating ideals of the Enlightenment. Romanticism was an alternate source for hope where the spiritual could be found […]
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Hannah Fuller edited the blog post Heathcliff Incarnate? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoHeathcliff’s son Linton seems so unlike his father in physical appearance that one might not even believe they are related. His blonde hair and physical ailments lead us as readers to believe he isn’t anything […]
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Hannah Fuller commented on the post, Chapter 24, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoNelly Dean tells Edgar immediately of Cathy’s late night adventures. Up until then, she had allowed Cathy to do what she wanted and kept her secrets from her father. To me, this seemed like the responsible thing […]
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Hannah Fuller edited the blog post Hindley the Steam King in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoCertain parts of the poem “The Steam King” by Edwin Mead remind me of Hindley Earnshaw from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. While I am not claiming that Hindley is comparable to the Industrial Revolution i […]
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Hannah Fuller commented on the post, England in 1819, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 9 months agoI really like the last two lines of this poem because despite all of the bad things being mentioned in the piece (i.e. the”old, mad, blind, despis’d, and dying king” and the “sanguine laws which tempt and slay”) […]
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Hannah Fuller edited the blog post Custom in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 9 months agoIn Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, there is a section under the chapter Natural Supernaturalism that tackles the topic of custom. Carlyle says, “…Custom has hoodwinked us…we do everything by custom, even Believe b […]
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Hannah Fuller started the topic "Revolution and Authority: 1830-1837" Summary (Group 6) in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies 3 years, 9 months ago
Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is not the simplest piece of writing to understand. Its metaphors and sometimes vague language can be easily misinterpreted. However, knowing the context in which the essay was written, and explaining what influenced Carlyle to write it, can go a long way in understanding the true meaning of Sartor Resartus. The p…[Read more]
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