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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post Faults with Perception in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 1 month agoThe way that A Mercy goes about how characters perceive things, often in ways that lack the “whole picture” is very interesting, and further illuminated by the narrative arc. Psychology suggests people seldom kno […]
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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post The Power of Perspective in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 2 months agoEvery
event that occurs has multiple perspectives, interpretations and stories. Today’s
political climate and current health crisis illuminates that for me even more. Take
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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post Power Struggles in King Lear in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 3 months agoThis semester we’ve emphasized the multi-faceted
function of words, how different definitions may subvert expectations and even
how two seemingly different definitions for the same words can connect. Two
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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I’ve Learned in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoThe most interesting thing that I’ve learned about Victorian Literature this semester is how stark the class differences were. When I first joined this class I thought the Victorian Era wasn’t as fiercely div […]
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Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Killing the ones you love in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn Oscar Wilde’s poem, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” he writes from the perspective of a man in jail, witnessing another prisoner who’s being put to death for killing his love. He then takes this physical action […]
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Isabella Higgins commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoOr is this just a stylistic technique that can be attributed to the time?
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Isabella Higgins commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoThis sentence’s use of polysyndeton I think is very interesting considering it’s placement in the text and its function, to describe Pip’s lineage. The expansiveness of this sentence doesn’t only come from the […]
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Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Skepticism of Science in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoAt the time of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species,
and other scientific revelations, there was a general distrust of science,
seeing as it refuted most things that religion taught. New ideas and theories
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Isabella Higgins commented on the post, Chapter 27, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoHow does Linton’s self deprecating language, both in this passage and previous ones, effect the reader’s understanding of his character? Is it a ploy for love or a form of manipulation? Do you trust him?
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Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Consent and Heathcliff and Isabella’s Relationship in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoIn Chapter 17 of Wuthering Heights, Isabella finally manages to flee from Heathcliff, but not before getting into a violent altercation with him where he flies into a “murderous rage”. After Isabella runs fro […]
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Isabella Higgins commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoDo you think Bronte believes that women of the socially elite are negatively affected by their upbringing/ status? What examples from the text support your opinion?
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Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Working Class Complaints in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoI find it really interesting how so far, across the Victorian literature we have read there’s a lot of thematic commonalities, particularly in regards to the treatment of the working class. This makes perfect […]
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Isabella Higgins commented on the post, Martineau, Society in America, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 9 months agoHow does the idea of consent translate to present government and politics? How does American politics and representation today parallel the issues that Martineau presents?
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Isabella Higgins commented on the post, Eliot, Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 9 months agoThe juxtaposing dichotomies on what it will take for women’s position to be improved in this paragraph were particularly interesting to me. Elliot’s belief that women need to be better as well as laws needing t […]
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Isabella Higgins edited the blog post in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 9 months agoIn
reading Harriet Martineau’s Society in America, Vol. 1 and Thomas
Carlyle’s Past and Present I have noticed a thematic similarity in their
call for a truer implementation of Democracy. Despite focusing on dif […] -
Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 9 months agoWhat I have read of Victorian Literature is only two novels, Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D’Urbervilles. This being said, there’s a lot I’d like to learn about Victorian Literature, part […]
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Isabella Higgins replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 3 years, 9 months agoWuthering Heights
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