{"id":92,"date":"2017-06-02T00:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T05:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/?p=92"},"modified":"2017-06-22T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:58:15","slug":"elissa-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/2017\/06\/02\/elissa-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Temme- Possible Areas of Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2019s influence on determining the value of an individual, or a person\u2019s social status. Gender is obviously a very important aspect of Austen\u2019s writing and general focus, and exploring it from the point of view of empire\u2019s role in her era would be helpful in understanding where her ideas, frustrations and messages stem from. The growth of the british empire contributed greatly to the dominance of the male patriarchy in Austen\u2019s time. The same is true for social status, as the nuances and complications of social interaction and \u201cpersonal value\u201d in Austen\u2019s time period were undoubtedly influenced by the idea of empire. There are some very interesting secondary sources that are available to look to on this subject, connecting it to the controversial writings of Galton and Spencer. (https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24254922)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we are not focusing on empire, I would like to continue to pursue the topics of judgement and perspective in the novel, and how Austen uses free indirect discourse as a tool to communicate political and social \u00a0messages subtly yet effectively. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s influence on determining the value of an individual, or a person\u2019s social status. Gender is obviously a very important aspect of Austen\u2019s writing and general focus, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elissas-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}