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...
by putnam1 | May 30, 2017 | Joseph's Blog
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...
