{"id":94,"date":"2017-06-02T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-06-22T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T17:36:21","slug":"joey-research-and-presentation-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/2017\/06\/02\/joey-research-and-presentation-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Putnam- Research and Presentation Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 can dedicate the <strong>first week<\/strong> to \u201cthe intro and <strong>beginning chapters<\/strong>, the <strong>second week<\/strong> to the events at <strong>Bath<\/strong>, and the <strong>third week<\/strong> to the events at <strong>the Abbey.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the <strong>first week<\/strong> we will give readers a sense of the general historical context of Austen\u2019s life and writing, briefly explaining who Austen was, her writing style, and the political, social, and literary context of her time.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>second week<\/strong>, we will focus on the issues Austen weaves into Catherine\u2019s time at Bath. Specifically, we will attend to the early nineteenth-century phenomena of <strong>empire, commodification, and courtship. <\/strong>During these conversations, we will want to think about these questions: Is Austen pro or anti empire? Is Austen a \u201cfeminist?\u201d Is <em>Northanger Abbey <\/em>a critique of courtship culture?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>third week<\/strong> will allow readers to consider the ideas that arise in the novel when Catherine stays at Northanger Abbey. Here, we may tailor the conversation to the contexts of <strong>Gothic Literature, the French Revolution, <\/strong>and<strong> the British government<\/strong>. In applying this historical context to the text, we can discuss how Austen uses<strong> the family as a metaphor for the state. <\/strong>Here are some questions we may want to consider for this discussion: What does Austen do with this metaphor? How does she use it to say something about the government\/politics of her time? Is Austen pro or anti government? We might also want to think about what an Abbey means as a space at this time in history and how that relates to Austen&#8217;s familial metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>Primary sources will inform most of this research. For a list of databases and source types we may use, see the <strong>\u201cDatabases and Sources\u201d document<\/strong> in the Google Drive\u2019s \u201cprimary sources\u201d folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 can dedicate the first week to \u201cthe intro and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2240,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-josephs-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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\/2240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/janeaustenincommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}