What are some research topics that could come from emma by jane austen?

I am thinking of doing sociology of the 1810's.





However, we need two research topics. I have no clue what to do for the other one. Any help?





It has to be related to the book in some way. Maybe I could do research on painting of the time like Emma enjoyed doing. I just don't know.

What are some research topics that could come from emma by jane austen?
You could expand that subject from the painting women did at that time to the different types of education women received during this period. For instance, Harriet went to Mrs. Goddard's school but Emma had a governess. I think you could find a lot of information about this in the library and even online.





Although I think it would be a rather lengthy study, you could compare the various classes of people in England during this era. Just about every class is represented in Emma.





There are a lot of different things you could research for that time period that would relate to Emma: what happened to poor women of the middle to upper classes who were not married, what were the manners of the times (what was acceptable and what wasn't), what were the fashions of the time, what role did an apothecary play in small villages in Regency England, and even what were balls or entertainments like.





I hope this helps.
Reply:Miss Austen gave her original readers a strong hint that there was something between Jane and Frank (Mr. Perry's carriage), but modern readers often don't catch it, especially if they haven't also read Sense and Sensibility--think of the conclusion Elinor comes to when she sees Marianne writing to Willoughby. Apparently a gentleman and a lady in her society did not correspond unless they were related or engaged. Can you get a research topic out of that fact? You might have to enlarge it a bit to cover just whom , especially of the opposite sex, it WAS considered proper to write to.





Another idea along the same lines is the social life of pregnant women in Jane Austen's novels. In the Victorian period, a few decades later, women who didn't absolutely HAVE to didn't go out in public once they began to show, but check how little time passes in Emma between the strawberry picnic and the birth of the Westons' daughter, yet Mrs. Weston is at the picnic. Similarly, from the first time we meet Charlotte Palmer in S%26amp;S, we're told that she is pregnant, although I don't remember at this point how far into her pregnancy she continues to go out socially. Another fruitful area for research?





One more: who in Jane Austen calls whom by his or her first name? What was the common practice then, and where was the line drawn? Did a husband automatically acquire the right to call by their first names all those whom his wife did? (Think of Mr. Weston and Emma, and Mr. Darcy and Kitty Bennet.)

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