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David Beyea wrote a new blog post “Like a Bed of Oysters:” The Interconnectivity of Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoI’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 […]
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David Beyea wrote a new blog post How the “Other” Half(?) Lives in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoI 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 […]
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David Beyea wrote a new blog post The Transformative Power of Torture in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoOn this week of “David connects this class with his other Revolutions of the 19th Century class,” David will once again connect this class with his other Revolutions of the 19th Century class! After my discussion […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Chapter 12, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 10 months ago[ My mind grew very uneasy on the subject of the pale young gentleman. The more I thought of the fight, and recalled the pale young gentleman on his back in various stages of puffy and incrimsoned countenance, the […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Chapter 51, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 11 months ago[But add the case that you had loved her, Pip, and had made her the subject of those ‘poor dreams’ which have, at one time or another, been in the heads of more men than you think likely]
Jaggers is really ham […]
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David Beyea edited the blog post The Picture of Philip Pirrip in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoSo, like usual, I’m going to be an improper student and connect Great Expectations to an outside-of-the-class text. This time it’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, which I’m reading for my Europe in the Age of Revol […]
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David Beyea edited the blog post Havisham and Heathcliff – The Spurned Lovers in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoAfter reading of Miss Havisham’s woeful backstory, I cannot help but be reminded of the other major relationship we’ve seen in a Victorian novel: that of Heathcliff and Cathy’s in Wuthering Heights. Havis […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Chapter 22, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 11 months ago[“I didn’t care much for it. She’s a Tartar.”]
Unless “Tartar” is some sort of chic Victorian slang that I am unaware of, my random compendium of history knowledge tells me that the Tartars were a group of peop […]
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David Beyea edited the blog post The Jingoism of Ideology in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 12 months agoSomething I noticed when reading Darwin’s and particularly Gosse’s piece is just how violently they frame the ideological “war” of the Victorian period. Gosse claims that in the academic landscape of the era, “It […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Chapter 18, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years ago[The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were the happiest of my life:]
So, Emily Bronte frequently uses this technique of jumping backwards and forwards in time throughout the […]
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David Beyea edited the blog post “I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!”: The Lovable Drama of the Romantic Revolution in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoSo I’m going to use this opportunity in my blog post to perhaps make a connection to some outside of class research I’ve done (but don’t worry, it’s not completely tangential). Recently in my History of European […]
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David Beyea edited the blog post Princes, the dregs of their dull race… in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoPoor Linton. And Hareton. And Catherine, for that matter. All have fallen victim to the vacuous pit of Wuthering Heights. But can they really be blamed for their frequently petty actions, especially given the […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Chapter 15, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoI’d love to know what exactly Catherine was thinking of when she heard the chapel bells, and why they triggered such thoughts. Is this just foreshadowing her death, or is there some deeper meaning here? Also, how […]
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David Beyea edited the blog post Where Have All the Children Gone? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoDuring our class on Thursday when we discussed the plight of English children in the Victorian age (particularly in “The Cry of the Children” and “The Chimney Sweeper”), the overarching concept came up of the […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Mill, Autobiography, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoIn this single paragraph, Mill really narrows in on the major insecurities that a massive number of consumers and authors of creative media face. The English alphabet has 26 letters; the human ear can only hear so […]
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David Beyea commented on the post, Martineau, Society in America, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoTo what extend does Martineau’s refusal to acquiesce serve as an effective form of political action/dissent? To what degree has the effectiveness of this technique changed in today’s world?
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David Beyea edited the blog post “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoIt is interesting to note that Martineau, much like Carlyle, uses the symbolism of clothes and livery to help establish their points about those with power and those without. Martineau mentions that the “kings of […]
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David Beyea wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn This Semester in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month agoSo I’m going to elaborate upon my earlier-stated desire of what to learn in this class (that being as to whether or not the writers of the Victorian era ever expressed any guilt or apprehension over their […]
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David Beyea replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 4 years, 1 month agoI’m not well-versed in Victorian Literature but the 1903 short story “The Monkey’s Paw” (right past the 1901 cutoff but still featuring the same Victorian aesthetic) is a classic tale of how you should never buy dismembered primate hands.
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