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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Group 1: Reflection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoThis 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 […]
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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: 4 years agoWhen 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 […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the post, Chapter 59, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 1 month agoIt almost seems that we are once again at the beginning: with a young Pip beside Joe, so much life ahead of him. The novel is still consistent with the present Pip reflecting back upon all of of the events that […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Getting Lit: Pip’s Characterization in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month agoIn Chapter 49 of Great Expectations we see Miss Havisham have another tragedy befall her, a poetic consequence, getting heated for raising such a cold-hearted girl. What was curious was Pip’s reaction here: “I […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Miss Havisham and Her Puppets in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month agoIn Great Expectations the narration is told by the present reflective Pip about the seemingly naïve past Pip. One of the several threads sewn into the narrative is the manipulation of young Pip and Estella by […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the post, Chapter 28, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 1 month agoRefer to my earlier comment in Chapter 22, this seems to reinforce my theory about the identity of “Pip” versus “Handel.”
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Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the post, Chapter 22, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 1 month agoBack in Chapter One, we see Pip establish himself as Pip and not Phillip. That was the point where he kind of realized who he was in relation to the word. Is this nickname of “Handel” a turning point that we are […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post A Difference in Narrations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month agoThe novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was written a little before before the Victorian period in the 1810s, but it displays potent examples of unreliable and manipulated narration. The original version of the […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights and Darwin: “Struggling to Exist” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months agoIn Darwin’s second paragraph of the On the Origin of Species excerpt, he defines and gives examples of the “struggle for existence,” which animals and plants both compete against weather, each other, and […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Catherine Heathcliff and Harriet Martineau: Women and Marriage in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months agoI wanted to explore the death of Linton Heathcliff, in relation to Catherine and Heathcliff, while cross-referencing Harriet Martineau’s Society in America. Heathcliff plays a tricky and manipulative game […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the post, Chapter 34, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 2 months agoIn this final chapter, Nelly refers to Heathcliff by calling him: a goblin, a ghastly figure, a ghoul, a fiend, and a vampire. Are these monstrous references foreshadowing that Heathcliff is not long for this […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post On Isabella Linton in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months agoI have found Isabella Linton to be a very intriguing character within Wuthering Heights as she is pushed aside by Heathcliff and Edgar, for Catherine. At first she starts out as a naïve girl who foolishly […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the post, Chapter 14, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 2 months agoI find it interesting that Nelly tends to speak her mind to whoever she chooses, regardless of class. Not only does she speak this way to Heathcliff, but also Isabella, Edgar, and Catherine it seems.
To focus […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Characterizing the Genre: A Sample So Far in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months agoAs I begin my first read of Wuthering Heights, I wanted to track back to previous texts I have explored, in order to do a check in on how I am painting my picture of the Victorian literature genre so far. The […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Making a Connection: Carlyle’s ‘Everlasting Yea’ and Martineau’s ‘Society in America’ in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 3 months agoAt a first glance, Martineau’s discussion on the lack of political power for women appears very different from Carlyle’s revelations in finding euphoric closure after a long conversion. But, both Carlyle and […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post What do you hope to learn about Victorian literature this semester? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 3 months agoPrimarily, I am excited to reread Great Expectations by Charles Dickens which is a novel that I explored in my early years of high school. It will be interesting to tackle different themes and notice details that […]
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Ravenna VanOstrand replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 4 years, 3 months agoI’ve read Great Expectations.
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