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Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post The Finale in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months ago

I initially came into this semester having no knowledge of Victorian literature- what novels were considered Victorian, defining features, or major authors. I even didn’t know much about the historical context a […]
Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post A Metaphorical Killing in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months ago

In The Ballad of Reading Gaol, the lines “Some love too little, some too long, /Some sell, and others buy; / Some do the deed with many tears, / And some without a sigh: / For each man kills the thing he loves, / […]
Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post The Hands of Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months ago

In his article, “Handling the Perceptual Politics of Identity in Great Expectations,” Peter J Capuano takes notice of all the numerous hand-related references throughout Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expec […]
Mallory DelSignore edited the blog post The Emotional Puppeteers in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months ago

It’s extremely hard not to see such a direct connection between Chapter 8 of Great Expectations and Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship at one point in Wuthering Heights.

“I had never thought of being […]
Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post Heathcliff is The Steam King in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months ago

In the poem, “The Steam King” one passage in particular reminds me of Heathcliff’s decline and eventual death. “Those hells upon earth, since the Steam Kings birth / have scatter’d around despair; / For the human […]
Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post Isabella: The Underrated Character in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months ago

I think one of the most underrated characters in Wuthering Heights is Isabella. In these chapters, we see her leave Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights with her child on her own. Although we never really […]
Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post The Wuther of the Other in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months ago

An overarching theme that our class has been discussing is gender ideologies and attributes depicted within Victorian literature. In response to this interest, Group 3 found Steven Vine’s article, “The Wuther of […]
Mallory DelSignore edited the blog post The Cry of Catherine and Heathcliff in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months ago

Surprisingly, I found an intriguing connection between The Cry of the Children and Wuthering Heights. Since the infamous Catherine and Heathcliff love story in Wuthering Heights begins when they are children, I […]
Mallory DelSignore edited the blog post Connections in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months ago

In Past and Present, Carlyle poses an interesting argument about the position of men in the middle of his anti lassiez-faire position. “Life was never a May-game for men: in all times the lot of the dumb m […]
Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 9 months ago

Besides those times in AP Literature where I read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights senior year of high school, I have no knowledge of what encompasses Victorian literature. To start, I would of course like to […]

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