by putnam1 | Jun 6, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
After reading Robert Merrett’s “Consuming Modes in Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Economic View of Literary Nationalism” and Lauren Miskin’s “‘True Indian Muslin’ and the Politics of Consumption in Jane...
by putnam1 | Jun 5, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
So far I think the newspaper articles on fashion in Bath are particularly interesting. With their focus on Indian muslin, they show how Bath’s growing consumer culture was tied to imports from other parts of the world. Moreover, these fashion columns also...
by putnam1 | Jun 2, 2017 | Joseph's Blog
Today we began to create a feasible structure for our research and a plan for presenting that research. Given that the community reading groups span three weeks, we think that we should divide the book into three sections, focusing on a different section each week. We...
by putnam1 | Jun 1, 2017 | Joseph's Blog
While we want our project to be accessible to a general audience of new readers, we also want to produce original scholarship that utilizes primary sources in order to contribute to the scholarly conversation on Jane Austen. One way of accomplishing these tasks...
by putnam1 | May 31, 2017 | Joseph's Blog
At this point, I am most interested in looking through the historical newspapers. I think these primary sources will provide us with invaluable sociopolitical context. Due to the fact that I may want to focus my project on the connections between gender and the...
