English @ SUNY Geneseo | Michael Adams | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/madams/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Adams. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7184d2e0e6f7bdcb11c72cb266dbe9b8 Michael Adams commented on the post, "The Novel of Purpose": Informing and Reforming Victorian England, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/22/the-novel-of-purpose-informing-and-reforming-victorian-england/#comment-812 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 05:54:18 -0500 Group four observes that, “despite the social commentary, however, it is clear that the hardships of the poor were meant to serve as a backdrop for the story, and that readers were ultimately meant to be more […]

]]> cdfd615a1bf857b631ffcb41a3831181 Michael Adams commented on the post, Negative Reviews and Criticism (Or Lack Thereof) on Dickens and A Christmas Carol, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/08/negative-reviews-and-criticism-or-lack-thereof-on-dickens-and-a-christmas-carol/#comment-608 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:45:54 -0500 Group 1 focuses on the idea that Dickens uses non-denominational characters from across the moral spectrum to prove that Christianity does not have a monopoly on moral righteousness.
We agree with the idea that […]

]]> 1ed3b459df373fc8cbcf675704a01877 Michael Adams commented on the post, Social class and the impact of the poor law, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/05/social-class-and-the-impact-of-the-poor-law/#comment-51 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:02:29 -0500 Group 2-

We believe that Dickens’ work was not necessarily meant to appeal to all the strata of Victorian society as much as it was meant to spread awareness and spearhead the cause of social change. Published […]

]]> 0c60c6779a899a9ec1c613009a1c5669 Michael Adams replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/why-dickens/page/2/#post-473 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:01:02 -0500 Unlike many of the responses I’m reading here, I know a bit (though I don’t claim to be an expert) about Dickens and his writing. I signed up for this class because, in spite of all that, I don’t like his work very much. I constantly hear people raving about his works as though they were penned by the Grand Illuminated Oversoul of Literature (I…[Read more]

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