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...
by temme1 | Jun 2, 2017 | Elissa's Blog
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...
by temme1 | Jun 2, 2017 | Elissa's Blog
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...
by temme1 | May 31, 2017 | Elissa's Blog
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...
by temme1 | May 30, 2017 | Elissa's Blog
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...