by putnam1 | Aug 2, 2017 | Joseph's Blog, Uncategorized
1.) Spend a lot of time with the text. Since you’ll want your projects to relate to the text in a fairly direct manner, it will help to read the text closely and carefully. Annotate heavily, and mark key passages. If you decide to use a different edition of the...
by putnam1 | Jun 20, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
I’d love to get an article published on Persuasions Online eventually. I think that doing so will take a decent amount of work, but it will be a good avenue for me to take the work I’m doing this summer further. By writing and publishing an article, I...
by putnam1 | Jun 15, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
This project has entirely changed my perception of Jane Austen. I came into this project viewing Austen as a simplistic writer who wrote cheesy, overblown romance narratives. In other words, I subscribed to the myth of Austen. Every day this summer I have come to...
by putnam1 | Jun 13, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
Helpful digital tools for projects: Muslin trade/empire/commodification: interactive map, knightlab storymap showing India, London, Bath, and possibly the routes of East India Company ships general overview: various timelines, maybe using the knightlab...
by putnam1 | Jun 7, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
digital archival research (online database skills) – I think that this kind of research is the future of literary studies and historical humanities research in general, so I hope to improve my digital research skills throughout the summer. wordpress/website...