English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ravenna VanOstrand | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/rv10/activity/ Activity feed for Ravenna VanOstrand. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 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 fcf5f2c15f4979631697247c93de29fb Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14018/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:53:34 -0500 It 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 […]

]]> 0 2fbcbf861bcea6c2e4825e5789bdc6b8 Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Getting Lit: Pip's Characterization in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13995/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:46:23 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 46455763832f2b00818b565a699a11f6 Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Miss Havisham and Her Puppets in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13900/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:34:38 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 9cc6b9697c1f56494ce1588db1d18aa9 Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13899/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:44:40 -0500 Refer to my earlier comment in Chapter 22, this seems to reinforce my theory about the identity of “Pip” versus “Handel.”

]]> 0 fa5b9f51cbfa3e24c119bc775a549c45 Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13897/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:11:33 -0500 Back 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 […]

]]> 0 af088fba2bd7f5375904c9308916d963 Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post A Difference in Narrations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13819/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:56:42 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 4ec0883e63fe0dd8457777c9a2d69250 Ravenna VanOstrand joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13727/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:38:02 -0500 0 cc2122804b5067abfd2cfcae76c78bb5 Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights and Darwin: "Struggling to Exist" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13665/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:03:29 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 4716d1d819a544ccad4cf79072f1cdd5 Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Catherine Heathcliff and Harriet Martineau: Women and Marriage in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13608/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:13:09 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 c83b9cbdad7e2a37532a2aebb7138c6a Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13605/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:37:57 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 036c3ce95249763cb7cc5e6f734d9fab Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post On Isabella Linton in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13538/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:41:31 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 6e3aee1066f18fabb2b50edee46d65d0 Ravenna VanOstrand commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13512/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:22:05 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 1e9815bd6f90562d7f587899e51bcecd Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Characterizing the Genre: A Sample So Far in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13465/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:30:50 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 f2ff46be2c3ef7d55f32f832b96a54de 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13310/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:13:41 -0500 At 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 […]

]]> 0 565916041cef234d71b058131554306e Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post What do you hope to learn about Victorian literature this semester? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13254/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 02:32:15 -0500 Primarily, 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 […]

]]> 0 7846e4f987d2524bd83afd913a412c9a Ravenna VanOstrand replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/#post-1428 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:10:11 -0500 I’ve read Great Expectations.

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