English @ SUNY Geneseo | Joshua Rogers | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/joshr17/activity/ Activity feed for Joshua Rogers. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 15936a4f205525ca830dd50f1d3e8ea3 Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Change and Challenge: 2020 as a Challenge to Change in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15461/ Sun, 20 Dec 2020 03:11:54 -0500 2020 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 […]

]]> 0 5f89e026ffbf96bed6b0d3c5a94296e8 Joshua Rogers joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15460/ Sun, 20 Dec 2020 03:09:18 -0500 0 bda9450d8e087fca8d59866cde28ed4c Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Contrasting Settings in Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13851/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:38:25 -0500 One 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, […]

]]> 0 86b1a55f68785b82e6980a3fc71e5501 Joshua Rogers commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13550/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:55:12 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 7d74b5343bee964d7f22b490544e1845 Joshua Rogers commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13549/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:47:37 -0500 Catherine 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 […]

]]> 0 8b0b69b3d9516be2230e9dd95cf95776 Joshua Rogers commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13402/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:25:39 -0500 What role did religion play for working class families during the industrial revolution? How (if at all) was this role different for children and adults?

]]> 0 fba9af82107ca516fc6d9716cf7ab16c Joshua Rogers commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13392/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:06:13 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 bb6df2d2e3014161d39240e5581ed630 Joshua Rogers commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13344/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:21:24 -0500 How does the persuasive approach taken by Eliot in this passage compare to the persuasive approach taken by Martineau?

]]> 0 973e18afd1300ab55a99520d49c80d9a Joshua Rogers edited the blog post George Eliot/Harriet Martineau Connections in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13313/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:14:31 -0500 George 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 […]

]]> 0 327fc59863201f070eefb8d3534b226d Joshua Rogers started the topic "The Birmingham Bull Ring Riots of 1839" Summary (Group 6) in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/the-birmingham-bull-ring-riots-of-1839-summary-group-6/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:37:44 -0500 In 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]

]]> 8e1f46eb7e366cc30a096dfe41f9de3e Joshua Rogers wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13260/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:43:01 -0500 Like 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 […]

]]> 0 fe4d90edfc9142d984fae08061c34b55 Joshua Rogers joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13142/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:39:38 -0500 0 07940535dc03f889e5870a070ec56eb0 Joshua Rogers 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/page/2/#post-1443 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:12:26 -0500 Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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