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Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Change and Challenge: 2020 as a Challenge to Change in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 9 months ago2020 has unquestionably been a year of immense change for both our nation and the world at large, so it is appropriate that this semester I discovered Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, which features change a […]
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Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Contrasting Settings in Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoOne of the ideas repeatedly emphasized in Wuthering Heights was the opposing settings of Thrusscross Grange manor and Wuthering Heights manor. One is quiet, reserved, pleasant and sickly, while the other chaotic, […]
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Joshua Rogers commented on the post, Chapter 22, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoI find the psychological insight that Bronte has into her characters to be striking and ahead of its time. It seems as though Catherine was coaxed into falling in love with Linton partially as a result of her […]
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Joshua Rogers commented on the post, Chapter 21, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoCatherine initially appears lukewarm to the prospect of a romance with Linton. Heathcliff repeatedly questions her: “don’t you like him?” “Is he not a handsome lad?” In response to this, it is only said that […]
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Joshua Rogers commented on the post, The Chimney Sweeper, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoWhat role did religion play for working class families during the industrial revolution? How (if at all) was this role different for children and adults?
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Joshua Rogers commented on the post, The Cry of the Children, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoI like how Browning personifies the wheel and urges it to behave more tenderly, like humans. It is interesting to me that Europeans are beginning to come into contact with what is now a classic trope: man versus […]
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Joshua Rogers commented on the post, Eliot, Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoHow does the persuasive approach taken by Eliot in this passage compare to the persuasive approach taken by Martineau?
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Joshua Rogers edited the blog post George Eliot/Harriet Martineau Connections in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoGeorge Eliot, in his writing “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft,” poses a quandary that was debated in his time: “On one side we hear that woman’s position can never be improved until women themselves are b […]
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Joshua Rogers started the topic "The Birmingham Bull Ring Riots of 1839" Summary (Group 6) in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 5 years, 1 month agoIn 1839, a worker’s rights group called the Chartists began meeting on a large scale in the city of Birmingham. Officials were concerned that these meetings were encouraging radical views and that they would eventually lead to disorder, so a large task force of policemen were deployed to arrest the Chartists. They fought back against them, and…[Read more]
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Joshua Rogers wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years, 1 month agoLike many others taking the class, I am not very familiar with Victorian literature. I’ve found the Victorian texts that I have read to be very dense, so I am looking forward to challenging myself and further […]
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Joshua Rogers replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 5 years, 1 month agoBram Stoker’s Dracula.
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