English @ SUNY Geneseo | Isabella Higgins | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ish1/activity/ Activity feed for Isabella Higgins. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 eb84f517f919dd2a89ea5e7f1f200e80 Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post Faults with Perception in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15110/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:25:01 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 1cc06358ad2da71669f99aff9f4890ac Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post The Power of Perspective in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15084/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:23:51 -0500                Every
event that occurs has multiple perspectives, interpretations and stories. Today’s
political climate and current health crisis illuminates that for me even more. Take
people who think they […]

]]> 0 0006a3a23552f6545aab2f7c0e6812f0 Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post Power Struggles in King Lear in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14975/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:50:21 -0500 This 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
words w […]

]]> 0 a67e54a2d4178046d612deb55c122763 Isabella Higgins joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14969/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:30:06 -0500 0 409f3cce9e7e44396259982633af836c Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I've Learned in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14226/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:35:14 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 7d97d5345497350ef11d44eceed5ecbb Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Killing the ones you love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14088/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 04:22:52 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 ef5a60386ae5f1877dacbd72e67a4d1b Isabella Higgins commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13830/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:54:31 -0500 Or is this just a stylistic technique that can be attributed to the time?

]]> 0 ddcaee2429b83ba90f35fb9a978270c8 Isabella Higgins commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13829/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:52:04 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 cf23992c2966535255d020a540647ce3 Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Skepticism of Science in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13679/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:13:18 -0500 At 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
were r […]

]]> 0 1284938849b0e1e7cd3c8e35b774304b Isabella Higgins commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13583/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:04:36 -0500 How 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?

]]> 0 7350d254ddc336c235141945f0433dc7 Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Consent and Heathcliff and Isabella's Relationship in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13545/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:50:57 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 057e5a714453fa8dab021214706de208 Isabella Higgins commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13498/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:52:46 -0500 Do 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?

]]> 0 b33a1aa169b873f7f335b56b983e78bc Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Working Class Complaints in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13480/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 02:26:46 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 3f628c9c1593941b5608d841ba31f049 Isabella Higgins commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13339/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:12:58 -0500 How does the idea of consent translate to present government and politics? How  does American politics and representation  today parallel the issues that  Martineau presents?

]]> 0 0151a157dbc73ed06bc3d5c63ecee58a Isabella Higgins commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13334/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:05:06 -0500 The  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 […]

]]> 0 dbfdc37f5dd2c24a7fb44a70fd32e9d5 Isabella Higgins edited the blog post in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13333/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 03:55:43 -0500 In
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 […]

]]> 0 05b6756481722e1d971cbb2d19c01a01 Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13241/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 22:01:33 -0500             What 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 […]

]]> 0 5954f82fdf55ccdc69312c53698a2944 Isabella Higgins replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/#post-1424 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:09:53 -0500 Wuthering Heights

]]> 41e4d3c3cebb15ba336d77c0e2b8bbaf Isabella Higgins joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13065/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:31:15 -0500 0 838be24575b8784997ac1ef04f10eea2 Isabella Higgins joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13064/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:30:46 -0500 0 1afa38e67c7bd42601a9cfdbe7b08787 Isabella Higgins became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8818/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:55:14 -0500 0