English @ SUNY Geneseo | Nivedita Rajan | Group Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/nivi/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Nivedita Rajan is a member. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9ca11a0fce2ecd42ed2c6f3c127a3b9f Sandy Brahaspat edited the blog post Themes Across Victorian Literature - Group 3 in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14576/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 04:00:39 -0500 Group 3: Sandy Brahaspat, Mallory DelSignore, Domenica Piccoli, Jasmine Vrooman

In completing our group project, we decided to use the online software Kumu to map out prevalent connections between themes like […]

]]> 0 b7a4ed12643c910056aeaa8bebc4d021 Emma Sens wrote a new blog post Group 4: Refelction in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14575/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:27:36 -0500 Group 4: Places That Show The Development Of Pip

By: Kathryn Capone, Emma Sens, Clare Corbett, Cameron Luquer, Kristopher Bangsil, and Isa Higgins

Our goal with this project was to delve deeper into the […]

]]> 0 c4c15382a646d3e3bf90e8ff48e87401 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Connecting the Experiences of Women in Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14574/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:54:08 -0500 Project by Group 2- Logan Carpenter, Hayley Jones, John Serbalik, and Emily Tsoi

Blog Post Written By Emily Tsoi and Hayley Jones

Process and Challenges Faced in Creating the Project:

When we were first […]

]]> 0 48d961c698cc00195ad6a5ba939a1baa Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14573/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:44:37 -0500 For our project, we were interested in gaining a better understanding of the role family plays in both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations. We can also begin to understand what role family plays in Victorian […]

]]> 0 aa43b633088b16b9c110f4085ab2cfed Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Group 1: Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14572/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:32:34 -0500 This project was inspired by, and further unearthed certain connections between, the chronology of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Both novels feature chronology as […]

]]> 0 d25ac175bedaeb7945552130653176fa Jaffre Aether edited the blog post Group 5 Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14571/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:23:15 -0500 The aim of our project is to situate the themes of our novel in a physical and historical context. By way of this, our thematic map allows for a visualization of the physical spaces that influenced the writers […]

]]> 0 515cf4d09a75cdbc8b0a83eb9e517e45 Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Connextions: Reflecting on this Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14234/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:25:17 -0500 The biggest takeaway I have from this semester is the connexions that I’ve made within the texts we’ve read but also across timelines. Dissecting stories like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in a way […]

]]> 0 3260b3b7434179afbe7206fef9f25645 John Serbalik wrote a new blog post A "Wilde" Author in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14233/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:59:25 -0500 Oscar Wilde made many contributions to the Victorian literature movement. His sexuality was a double-edged sword in his success as a. We learned in class that his intimate relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas […]

]]> 0 22653bcd1d87254822b3060a9e1885f5 Logan Carpenter wrote a new blog post What I've learned this semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14232/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:55:37 -0500 Last semester I took Digital Humanities with Dr. Schacht and learned so much that I decided to take another class with him this semester. He always chooses such enjoyable readings and formats the class so we all […]

]]> 0 81496ce839bb52f20fb54a60ccfabe4a Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Victorian Connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14231/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:53:26 -0500 In thinking about this class as a whole, and what I would write for this blog post, I spent some time thinking about the name of the course, Victorian Connections, and what exactly that meant. I tried to think of […]

]]> 0 7319db595a550e0c9233ef2849871fcc Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Resilient Heroines of Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14230/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:41:58 -0500 As I reflect on all of the texts that we explored this semester, it is safe to say that my initial admiration for Victorian literature stands strong as ever. Throughout the course of the semester, I was […]

]]> 0 0b831d2f4ec5cf0618f5ecf4014882dc Hannah Bentivegna wrote a new blog post What I enjoyed and learned about Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14229/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:35:44 -0500 Since I am fairly new to the English major, before taking this class I had only ever taken one other English class; New Zealand Literature. Initially I was a little nervous that I would feel out of place in a 300 […]

]]> 0 b59f4246b530e5316cc2c831768ac1e7 Emma Sens wrote a new blog post powerful women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14227/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:41:10 -0500 At the beginning of the year, I wondered about the roles women had women in Victorian literature, over the course I have learned a lot about this topic, and I think the most interesting thing I learned was how to […]

]]> 0 409f3cce9e7e44396259982633af836c Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post What I've Learned in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14226/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:35:14 -0500 The most interesting thing that I’ve learned about Victorian Literature this semester is how stark the class differences were. When I first joined this class I thought the Victorian Era wasn’t as fiercely div […]

]]> 0 6f83bb99f78baa024cc50d1d71171216 Amanda Sheps wrote a new blog post Most important thing I learned this Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14225/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:19:36 -0500 One of the most important things I learned this semester was that stories in the Victorian era had a significant amount of political commentary. It was interesting to see views that were very similar to views […]

]]> 0 f40af46f88870ed7779d8530154b2f0a Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Most interesting thing I've learned in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14223/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:51:25 -0500 What a question! So much.

I feel like I have learned so many interesting things. I think Prof Schacht did a great job in selecting the texts for this semester. It made for interesting reads as we could tie […]

]]> 0 d30691e775d7d7b1d8f81166e64d9220 David Beyea wrote a new blog post "Like a Bed of Oysters:" The Interconnectivity of Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14222/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:31:57 -0500 I’ve always viewed Victorian literature as the space of snobbish literary pedants, what with all the focus on nigh-puritanical cultural inhibitions and cloying romantic dialogue. And no, this class has not […]

]]> 0 fdf5eef82b2799e41823e5dcde00fe85 Mallory DelSignore wrote a new blog post The Finale in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14221/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:01:07 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 16383dfdc9eba04c412d102fa8371dbb Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Above and Beyond in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14220/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:29:05 -0500 Though I began this semester wondering about the gender roles and norms that women were subject to during the Victorian period, I, inevitably and thoroughly, learned about that topic and many, many other topics […]

]]> 0 1da95ba3ed308a987430f29717dc2f05 Jaffre Aether wrote a new blog post Victorian Literature and Emotion in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14219/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:15:24 -0500 I suppose the most interesting thing I learned about Victorian Literature this semester was just how emotional it can be. I had already read Middlemarch prior, and was touched at the emotion and sentiment risen […]

]]> 0 381d85cb95e9854045dfc93be7fd36eb Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Social Darwinism is Bad in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14218/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:15:08 -0500 The most interesting thing I learned this semester is the widespread effects of Darwin’s theory during the Victorian Era. While, of course I’ve known about Darwin’s theory, I’ve never quite known about the ext […]

]]> 0 9a0740975265797ebd888b53d876a50f Kristopher Bangsil wrote a new blog post The Importance of Humanity in Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14216/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 23:07:00 -0500 Entering into this course, the only experience I had with Victorian Literature was in gothic horror novels such as Frankenstein. I had little knowledge of general Victorian literature. The stereotypical view of […]

]]> 0 22035f1645721f04e451f7d5eddc8626 Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Prison System: The Most Interesting Topic I Learned About The Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14215/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:44:46 -0500 When this class first began in August, I knew very little about Victorian literature and I was unsure of what to expect. However, as the class progressed, I learned more than I was anticipating. Some of my […]

]]> 0 9ae0df39275bdd25daf6fcda9feeab7c Alaina Walier wrote a new blog post Women Shaping Content in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14214/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:27:56 -0500 I find the most interesting and also my favorite thing I learned about Victorian literature was the way women writers used their work to shape the public look on the woman’s roll and the patriarchy. I was not […]

]]> 0 5d0e7038fbebc7195632a4fa64c882c9 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Reshaping my understanding of Victorian lit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14213/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:50:31 -0500 Prior to this class, I tended to avoid Victorian Literature like the plague. I’m not totally sure why; maybe I always associated it with intolerable run-on sentences, or maybe it was PTSD from high school English […]

]]> 0 c95bce5682e2d148e3fe61458822e05f Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Universal Connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14208/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:55:58 -0500 In my first blogpost, I wrote about being excited to learn about the characteristics of Victorian literature–the what that this literature is made up of. Before coming into this class, my idea of Victorian […]

]]> 0 41e27e16e2f35125d87ae05cbf149c0b Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned about Victorian literature this semester? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14205/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:08:21 -0500 When I started out, I knew next-to-nothing about Victorian Literature. Sure, I had read Great Expectations back in high school, but you can’t depend on one novel to represent an entire genre. I think I […]

]]> 0 f7f9cd383baf982ea59274e9654108c9 Michaelena Ferraro wrote a new blog post What is the most interesting thing you learned? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14204/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:14:31 -0500 All throughout the semester we have been reading many different texts from Victorian Literature. In the beginning, for me personally at least, I was not anticipating that there would really be any obvious […]

]]> 0 953a56f2f4ab94b07ef7d157ebaf35c6 Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned about Victorian literature this semester? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14195/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:43:52 -0500 When first entering this course, I had no clue what Victorian Literature was nor the history behind the Victorian era and its common theme romance. Little to my knowledge was I aware that I had read a couple of […]

]]> 0 3285be87bf71fa81f0630bbf9b148a87 Kathryn Capone wrote a new blog post What I Learned About Women During the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14190/ Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:37:17 -0500 Throughout this semester, I learned a lot of interesting things about Victorian literature. One thing that I found to be the most compelling is the way female authors wrote about women and women’s issues at the […]

]]> 0 7d48ff76a70ccfc8af8391ff0a39daac Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Reflecting on Victorian Connexions in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14189/ Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:07:38 -0500 In my first blog post titled “What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature”, I discussed how I was interested in learning about how Victorian writers connected their lives and world around them to their wri […]

]]> 0 9ebabdf7f70044ec7abf134276100fe9 Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Group 6: The Necessity for Autonomy in the Jewish Community in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14175/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:16:37 -0500 Upon its publication in the late 19th century, Reuben Sachs was denounced by the Jewish community and the mainstream press for its seemingly anti-Semitic themes. This is a criticism that Richa Dwor contends with […]

]]> 0 2d2471431fcd08b65e1727859c3c81af Sara Devoe edited the blog post Class in “Reuben” in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14157/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:49:55 -0500 The class status of Reuben and his family is quite similar to that of Catherine Earnshaw in “Wuthering Heights”. Both families come from upper classes, the females especially in both families are obsessed wit […]

]]> 0 274b8e0473f1e4a6d57472ee02b7a182 Amanda Sheps edited the blog post How Levy's descriptions match the plainness of Dickens' Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14156/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:38:57 -0500 While reading Reuben Sachs, I was impressed by the way that the text was easy to read yet said a lot. This simple, straight-forward way of writing can also be seen in Dickens’ text. Although Dickens’ texts often […]

]]> 0 75abecccf85c6f92e18181248758e330 Kristopher Bangsil wrote a new blog post Romance vs Victorian Society in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14151/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:48:31 -0500 In Reuban Sachs, one of the elements of the plot I immediately noticed was the prevalence of romance and courtship. Much of the plot surrounds Reuben and Judith, and their relationship within both the […]

]]> 0 cb1a4f96d34214e0c354f592ac1005bd Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Reuben Sachs and the Influence of Victorian England on Jewish People in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14150/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:48:15 -0500 The discrimination and marginalization of Jews in Victorian London described in this section is not surprising being that this was a time in which society worked to actively suppress groups based on criteria like […]

]]> 0 5517aec005c2bade276f726e91bc19ca Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Human Anatomy in Victorian Novels in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14149/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:42:31 -0500 When I was reading Reuben Sachs, I noticed that when Amy Levy described the characters, she focused a lot on their physical appearances. She wrote about what they wore and gave descriptions of their faces with a […]

]]> 0 a559d9b2b49f6c3d4dcc55339a7999ee Abbey Morgan wrote a new blog post Spinsters, Aged, and Unstables: The Undesirable Women of Victorian England in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14148/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:29:42 -0500 There is a character in Reuben Sachs who I believe deserves more attention. From her introduction and unfavorable description, I became interested in Aunt Ada. At this point however, I really only know that she […]

]]> 0 115beee00771d50dcebe357147b3916c Logan Carpenter edited the blog post Group 2 Research: Representation of the Jewish Population in England in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14147/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:29:19 -0500 Anti-Semitism had been seen as a disease passed down from generation to generation through the medium of printed word. Some common misconceptions of Jews over the years are that they’re greedy, communists, d […]

]]> 0 283f14cd1456dbecddee58e1f4dfe224 Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Victorian Expectations for Women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14145/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:02:07 -0500 While reading Reuben Sachs I came across one quote in particular that stuck out to me, “This woman, with her beauty, her intelligence, her power of feeling, saw herself merely as one of a vast crowd of girls awa […]

]]> 0 857ada2a9857ebaa69642e57316529ea David Beyea wrote a new blog post How the "Other" Half(?) Lives in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14144/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:58:10 -0500 I swear, it’s almost as if there is some psychic connection linking the two syllabuses of these classes together, because today in my European Revolutions we talked about Antisemitism in the latter part of the […]

]]> 0 9072cdccffac18c88b08cc57a0b178ad Michaelena Ferraro edited the blog post Romance and society? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14143/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:44:38 -0500 I can now truly see why “Victorian Connections” is such a fitting title when we want to group together all of the things that we are reading this semester. Sometimes when reading and doing research, you almost […]

]]> 0 4d0b54a6e74c843209ef015128194612 Alaina Walier edited the blog post Levy and Wilde: oppression leads to great art in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14142/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:21:09 -0500 After reading the Levy novel Ruben Sachs I could not help but look into the life and inspiration of the author. It is clear she is writing her work from a feminist perspective and commenting on the patriarchal […]

]]> 0 ad3cebb5eff3fd9b4a09dad18768c2eb Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Incestuous love: The case of the forbidden love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14141/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:58:30 -0500 In Wuthering Heights, we are introduced to Heathcliff who is adopted into the Earnshaw family. Although Catherine Earnshaw was not fond of his presence in the beginning, she did begin to have a hold on Heathcliff […]

]]> 0 b951b5d59f652c05f6327a21cda7037c Domenica Piccoli wrote a new blog post Class and Love (also through faces?) in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14140/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:37:01 -0500 One thing, that I didn’t connect to anything lol, in particular that stuck out to me in reading Reuben Sach is the tremendous detail in this novel. The details make the novel so interesting and conveys a sense of […]

]]> 0 7d60adc6608d77951e9fa8d283afc7f4 Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Physical Appearances in Great Expectations & Reuben Sachs in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14139/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:32:49 -0500 When reading Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy for this week, a description that jumped out at me within the first few pages was the physical description of Adelaide and her mother. “She was richly and very fashionably […]

]]> 0 d7c748be331c0df29242cc613feaa66b Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Catherine, Judith, and Gender Norms in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14138/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:06:50 -0500 Though women are still burdened by many different paradoxical and unfair standards today, my knowledge of Victorian literature seems to indicate that intensely contradictory and unrealistic norms have always been […]

]]> 0 c32a4f004ec73c51b71e7ad55d11fc2d Jaffre Aether wrote a new blog post Spaces in Victorian England: Wuthering Heights and Reuben Sachs in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14136/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:50:25 -0500 I’ve touched on the concept of space in Victorian England before, but the fact that it keeps coming up is quite interesting. In this case, Wuthering Heights and Reuben Sachs are both books that are emblematic of […]

]]> 0 f0eac54d0fc79408f68561190e00450c Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Amy Levy: A "Jewish Jane Austen" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14135/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:37:50 -0500 When I was studying abroad in London this past Spring, I frequently visited the small bookstore Persephone Books, an independent bookseller known for reprinting texts written by neglected women writers of the […]

]]> 0 4bf08593d802006aac4082925125cc93 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Judaism During the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14132/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:12:13 -0500 While reading Reuben Sachs, a passage about religion stood out to me. On page 24, it states that Lee-Harrison “joined a set of mystics, and lived for three months on a mountain, somewhere in Asia Minor. Now he […]

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