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Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Group 1: Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
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, 10 months ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Getting Lit: Pip’s Characterization in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Miss Havisham and Her Puppets in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post A Difference in Narrations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights and Darwin: “Struggling to Exist” in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand wrote a new blog post Catherine Heathcliff and Harriet Martineau: Women and Marriage in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post On Isabella Linton in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years ago

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 […]
Ravenna VanOstrand edited the blog post Characterizing the Genre: A Sample So Far in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years ago

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 […]
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: 5 years ago

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 […]

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