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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post Faults with Perception in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post The Power of Perspective in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post Power Struggles in King Lear in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I’ve Learned in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Killing the ones you love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Skepticism of Science in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Consent and Heathcliff and Isabella’s Relationship in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins edited the blog post Working Class Complaints in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins edited the blog post in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 12 months ago

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 […]
Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 7 years ago

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 […]

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