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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: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea wrote a new blog post How the “Other” Half(?) Lives in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea wrote a new blog post The Transformative Power of Torture in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea edited the blog post The Picture of Philip Pirrip in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea edited the blog post Havisham and Heathcliff – The Spurned Lovers in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea edited the blog post The Jingoism of Ideology in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea edited the blog post Princes, the dregs of their dull race… in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
David Beyea edited the blog post Where Have All the Children Gone? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
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: 6 years, 12 months ago

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 […]

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