Research Blogs
Advice for Future Researchers
Pay it Forward: Compile a list of advice for someone doing a project like this one in the future. read and re-read the text. Since the project is text based, it is invaluable to know even the more subtle aspects of what you’re reading. start early in the...
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Putnam- Advice for Future Project
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 text...
Temme- Updated Skills List
For Blog #7, you made a list of experience and skills you want to be able to list on your resume as a result of this CURI project. Make any revisions to this list, then describe your progress toward these goals. Here's what I said in blog #7: Some skills I would like...
Putnam- The Future of this Project
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 would be able to...
Temme- Broader Publishing Opportunities
Think about broader publishing opportunities… where else can this project live? Write up a brief report on the one marked with your initials, and see if you can find 1-2 other possible places to share our research. 18th Connect is a website containing digital projects...
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Temme- Surprising Discoveries
Undoubtedly, the most surprising thing I have discovered about this project so far is that Google cannot be trusted. As I have learned to use various primary and secondary source databases and compared the results I get from them to the results I am able to get from...
Protected: Hindman- Muslin Trade
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Putnam- My New Jane Austen
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...
Protected: Hindman- Digital Skills
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Putnam- Digital Tools
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...
Temme- Digital Tools
Describe what digital tools will best fit your research topic. What technology skills do you know? What will you need to learn? At this point, it seems that I will be pursuing the reception history of Northanger Abbey. I will be tracing examples of the reception...
Temme- Skills to Develop
Some skills I would like to be able to list on my resume as a result of this CURI project: further developing skills in digital humanities teamwork time management leadership/ taking initiative professional communication archival research skills (how to use different...
Putnam- Skills I Want to Develop
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 design...
Protected: Hindman- Skill Development
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Temme- What Is Already Known/ What Can Be Added
What do scholars know already about your topic? What do you hope to add to the conversation? Though I have not yet narrowed down a single topic that I wish to focus on individually, I am still attached to the idea of incorporating race issues, the treatment of racial...
Putnam- Scholarly Conversation on Consumption
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 Austen's Northanger Abbey, I realize scholars are thinking about...
Protected: Hindman- Adding to the Conversation
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Protected: Hindman- Primary Sources
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Temme- Some Interesting Primary Sources
What are the most interesting primary sources you’ve found so far? Why? I am extremely interested in pursuing the "reception" of Austen's Northanger Abbey by her contemporaries, because by examining these reactions through the eyes of persons completely immersed in...
Putnam- First Interesting Primary Sources
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 underscore...
Temme- Digital Presentation Forms
There are many possible digital routes our project could take, and I believe that we could make the best out of any of them. The styles I am most interested in right now are maps, timelines and videos, but I don’t intend to isolate one of them. I think it would be...
Putnam- Research and Presentation Structure
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...
Temme- Possible Areas of Focus
If we are focusing on the topic of empire as our broad umbrella topic, I would be interested in exploring either empire and patriarchal gender roles or empire’s influence on determining the value of an individual, or a person’s social status. Gender is obviously a...
Putnam- Thoughts on Research
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...
Protected: Hindman- Research Process Update
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Temme- Primary Documents and Research Questions
Based on the conversations we have had and our preliminary investigation into the databases available, I am most interested in the Orlando and Reading Experience Databases. We can use these to see how Austen’s writing was received during different time periods, and...
Putnam- Ideas for Primary Research
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...
Protected: Hindman- Thoughts on Primary Sources and Research Questions
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Putnam- Our Project
At a basic level, our project aims to complicate the popular understanding of Jane Austen. By researching and providing a general audience with historical and political context on Northanger Abbey, we hope to display Jane Austen as an author who grapples with the...
Temme- Our Project
Our Project Use digital tools and access to primary resources/ archives to ask questions about the themes of and explore the context of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Present what we have discovered effectively, accessibly, creatively and engagingly to...
Protected: Hindman- Description of Project
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