English @ SUNY Geneseo | Michael Stoianoff | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/mstoianoff/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Stoianoff. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9de4be67892943ceb238e205824fbe6e Michael Stoianoff joined the group Speculative Fiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4021/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:22:43 -0500 0 1c8a0ea77319d055ef373aa4f0db500e Michael Stoianoff commented on the post, Progression of Ideas of Consciousness in Victorian England , on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/19/progression-of-ideas-of-consciousness-in-victorian-england/#comment-1610 Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:47:39 -0500 We agree, but we think that Pip’s sense of consciousness also includes an internal aspect separate from his grounding in his social identity. This can be seen through Pip’s reaction to discovering that Magwitch is […]

]]> 8881b4bff58740a965fbd14960c4ef1c Michael Stoianoff commented on the post, Victorian Diseases and their Impact on Society, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/05/victorian-diseases-and-their-impact-on-society/#comment-1092 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:10:52 -0500 Group 2: Kevin O’Connor, Hannah Glaser, Colin Peartree, Michael Adams, Mike Stoianoff

Group Three focuses primarily on Dickens’ representation of disease, as linked to sanitation. They argue that Dickens’ […]

]]> a59584e13271a3f8291bb4e39f01c9d0 Michael Stoianoff commented on the post, The Influence of A Christmas Carol on how Christmas Has Come to be Understood, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/24/the-influence-of-a-christmas-carol-on-how-christmas-has-come-to-be-understood/#comment-347 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 06:16:27 -0500 Group 2

Group 3 identifies in their post that “Dickens shifted the focus from one of community-based activities to being much more family-centered, and more specifically, child-friendly.” It would seem in the […]

]]> 7e8ad599683854707f290b07d323f36b Michael Stoianoff commented on the post, Dickens' Contemporary Critics and the Social Discussion of the New Poor Law and Workhouses, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/10/influence-of-dickens-contemporary-critics-on-social-discussion/#comment-93 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:40:53 -0500 To ascertain a writer’s intentions or moral stance, one must first look at the man and his times, apart from the text, then analyze the story and characters for congruences. In response to the New Poor Law, […]

]]> b04eae109ad256d1d10c6045117f5887 Michael Stoianoff 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-475 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:56:18 -0500 Why not?

As a human being who speaks English and also likes to read it, I can’t think of a good reason. Perhaps it’s a matter of patience, or adaptation to the style and idiosyncrasies of Victorian Lit, or a general will to wade through the depths of sprawling sentences and descriptions, in order to fully immerse yourself in a new world. Or maybe…[Read more]

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