Choose one work of prose fiction as your primary text(s). Identify TWO questions that could serve as the basis for digital literary investigations of your primary text(s). (Use the Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.) Explain what data you intend to gather and what conclusions you think it might support.

Wharton’s novel is rich in themes—appearance vs reality, how social norms constrain personal liberty, the relationship of individual identity to social conventions, the moral hypocrisy of New York in the 1870s, attitudes toward divorce, the Old World vs the New, and the commodification of women. If by ”digital literary investigation” you mean using the Internet to provide context, there is plenty of material here to work with. One example of a question is "How were women represented in New York in the 1870s and 1880s?" Another question is “What were the social customs of New York society in the 1870s?” It is not too difficult to assemble a collection of images of New York from that time. One of the things you will find when doing such research is that New York was actively becoming the city we know today—many of the landmarks we know, like the Brooklyn Bridge, were being built. Wharton’s novel is definitely about the intersection of old and new. As a result, a good question for your investigation might be the following: ”How does Wharton’s depiction of New York society reflect the the economic and social changes of her time?”
Another avenue to explore is the development of Wharton’s manuscript. One place I would start is with Yale’s Wharton collection, which includes digitized images of Wharton manuscripts. This includes an early outline of the novel, a photo of her from the 1890s with her two dogs, a number of manuscript pages, and even a newspaper advertisement for the novel that appeared at the time of publication. A question guiding your inquiry might be the following: “What does Wharton’s manuscript tell us about her intent in developing her novel?”
Good luck with your investigation!
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/edith-wharton-collection