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 hindma1 | Jun 6, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
by hindma1 | Jun 6, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
by temme1 | Jun 5, 2017 | community, Elissa's Blog, Joseph's Blog, Sarah's Blog, Uncategorized
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...
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...