English @ SUNY Geneseo | David Beyea | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/vaseline8/activity/ Activity feed for David Beyea. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 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 7529216c2adf0120e29888f3fabda72b David Beyea wrote a new blog post The Transformative Power of Torture in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14085/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:33:34 -0500 On 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 […]

]]> 0 6aa9cda6889a959f9da4f864a976fd9d David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14032/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:46:17 -0500 [ 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 […]

]]> 0 32d995339591b01b12e98ee673258ab9 David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14017/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:52:23 -0500 [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 […]

]]> 0 b0409e39b9e4df5b4aee2a2151d99911 David Beyea edited the blog post The Picture of Philip Pirrip in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13996/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 02:03:16 -0500 So, 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 […]

]]> 0 1ee47946db4de973955e33e341a94e63 David Beyea edited the blog post Havisham and Heathcliff - The Spurned Lovers in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13919/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 03:41:18 -0500 After 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 […]

]]> 0 1c23c2b9388a33e23db24e099fb37cf8 David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13910/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:53:03 -0500 [“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 […]

]]> 0 c7a1fd36e0cee35e77d2d909e7c16990 David Beyea edited the blog post The Jingoism of Ideology in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13678/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:40:54 -0500 Something 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 […]

]]> 0 eded6d13e8a7f13397335c02a58c936f David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13614/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 02:04:49 -0500 [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 […]

]]> 0 3a3a89a89aeee5c184841d01c1c5f312 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13612/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:11:45 -0500 So 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 […]

]]> 0 e3ef3abc9b4d62d6568327eebbcce453 David Beyea edited the blog post Princes, the dregs of their dull race... in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13555/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:48:23 -0500 Poor 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 […]

]]> 0 c6bac29f4ee1d6b4333e964cfcc37bb7 David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13522/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 02:39:38 -0500 I’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 […]

]]> 0 56d919826ee69f8f9854684b498d84f7 David Beyea edited the blog post Where Have All the Children Gone? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13486/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:10:24 -0500 During 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 […]

]]> 0 fe16d67c314893253d9f7abac4e12dba David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13347/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:39:26 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 6fd0bb1432bef865e2e5d163ee30b1a2 David Beyea joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13341/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:17:01 -0500 0 d0f53e42a2d8e3a9cd46f7116aacbad4 David Beyea commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14919/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:15:29 -0500 To 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? 

]]> 0 1b654879d98015b0640b1e14ce4aead8 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13336/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:31:41 -0500 It 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 […]

]]> 0 c86724be2dc8f00e68da7767c41bbff9 David Beyea wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn This Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13225/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:38:51 -0500 So 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 […]

]]> 0 c3dca29ec3487138b1e12781f7b4d883 David Beyea 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/page/3/#post-1455 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:15:14 -0500 I’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.

]]> b79572147a9c9e1525b5dc1de10e501d David Beyea joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13098/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:05:02 -0500 0 119990b259f600351e8c4ee2c68d8cd5 David Beyea changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12568/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:16:17 -0500 0 a110a5f32ecf023cfb7ddaf3c0afc60f David Beyea wrote a new blog post The War of the STEM and the Human in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12567/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:15:20 -0500 There is a war currently being waged between STEM and humanities
majors. This is not a violent conflict, no blood has yet been shed;the only casualties are those who become polluted into thinking that
either […]

]]> 0 966876cf69d0e6ec9cfee345f0fd300c David Beyea replied to the topic One-sentence summaries of the Lessig excerpt in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/one-sentence-summaries-of-the-lessig-excerpt/#post-1338 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:00:52 -0500 Group 5:
Summary:
The law and capital interests are working together to regulate intellectual property in such a way that stifles creativity due to outdated copyright laws, which once applied to print sources, no longer applying to the dynamic ownership of the internet.
Question:
By making online accounts or applying for social media, are you…[Read more]

]]> b26074771d5489ea19de3fc1165f3bca David Beyea wrote a new blog post Technology: the Terrifying Tool? in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12297/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:35:52 -0500  
It begins, as always, with video games.
Back in 2003, on my fifth birthday, my parents got me a small gaming device called a “Gameboy”, a product that has since become somewhat defunct due to those […]

]]> 0 348767af2c7fcef79376413b7832c7c6 David Beyea joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12052/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:37:02 -0500 0 78350cdc2e1c99d0ad2a11e243a3da4b David Beyea joined the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7589/ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:38:04 -0500 0 351792e025ddbf16ef640aa8d0c1a9bc David Beyea became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7574/ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:15:52 -0500 0