Early modern women and the poetry of complaint, 1540-1660. This project aims to discover how early modern women used the widespread, powerful and diverse mode of complaint to voice expressions of protest and loss during the English Renaissance. The project will highlight women’s roles as writers, patrons and textual producers and consumers of the mode of complaint. The project expects to uncover how the imagined voices of the disempowered shaped the literary and political cultures of early moder ....Early modern women and the poetry of complaint, 1540-1660. This project aims to discover how early modern women used the widespread, powerful and diverse mode of complaint to voice expressions of protest and loss during the English Renaissance. The project will highlight women’s roles as writers, patrons and textual producers and consumers of the mode of complaint. The project expects to uncover how the imagined voices of the disempowered shaped the literary and political cultures of early modern England. Reconceptualising a mode in Renaissance literature will benefit Australia's standing at the forefront of research in early modern studies.Read moreRead less
William Blake in the 21st century: poetry, prophecy, the history of imagination, and the futures of romanticism. William Blake, one of the most important Romantic artists, provides an exemplary instance of the creative and iconoclastic. By recovering Blake's dialogue with London's prophetic subcultures, this project offers an original account of his oeuvre, the cultural resources that enabled his originality, and the role played by creativity in modernity.
Insights from the Invisible Drama: Shakespeare, Lost Plays and Theatre History, c.1585-1613. Early modern English theatre has been understood almost exclusively in terms of plays that were printed or survived in manuscript. Traditional theatre history narratives have ignored the evidence pertaining to over 700 plays written and performed in Shakespeare’s London but which are now lost or survive only in fragments. This project will consult unpublished archival evidence and under-analysed historic ....Insights from the Invisible Drama: Shakespeare, Lost Plays and Theatre History, c.1585-1613. Early modern English theatre has been understood almost exclusively in terms of plays that were printed or survived in manuscript. Traditional theatre history narratives have ignored the evidence pertaining to over 700 plays written and performed in Shakespeare’s London but which are now lost or survive only in fragments. This project will consult unpublished archival evidence and under-analysed historical records to produce new knowledge about plays, playwrights, companies, venues, and repertory practices in England during Shakespeare’s professional career (c.1585 to 1613). By addressing this gap, this project will generate new understandings of Shakespeare’s theatrical marketplace.Read moreRead less
Modernism and the Early Middle Ages. This project aims to understand how Modernist writers engaged with early mediaeval thought and texts.Literary Modernism draws heavily on medieval literature and thought, particularly Anglo-Saxon poetry, the Provençal poetry of the Troubadours, and Dante’s Divina Commedia – but little attention has been paid to their influence on Modernist writers. This project will use the transmission of late classical thought and such textual practices as linear commentarie ....Modernism and the Early Middle Ages. This project aims to understand how Modernist writers engaged with early mediaeval thought and texts.Literary Modernism draws heavily on medieval literature and thought, particularly Anglo-Saxon poetry, the Provençal poetry of the Troubadours, and Dante’s Divina Commedia – but little attention has been paid to their influence on Modernist writers. This project will use the transmission of late classical thought and such textual practices as linear commentaries and glossatory techniques to study Modernism and the High Middle Ages. The project expects to provide a foundation for and counterpart to the newly vibrant field of Modernism and the High Middle Ages.Read moreRead less
Cognition, culture, and textual encounters: a study of what cognitive science and the earliest English poetry can do for each other. This project examines, through multidisciplinary tools drawn from cognitive science, how we are able to understand texts written over 1000 years ago, through the cognitive structures and cultural factors that shape meaning. Using cognitive approaches to literature, this study demonstrates the complex interplay of mind, culture, and literary texts.
Modernism and the British secret state. The purpose of the project is to explore interactions between modernist culture and intelligence agencies such as Military Intelligence, Section 5. It opens an exciting new field for modernist scholarship, and the resulting book will make an important contribution to the broader understanding of the process of government surveillance and its impact upon literature and culture.
The material cultures of early modern women's writing: editing, reception and mediation. This project provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern women's writing was produced and circulated from its original appearance to the present day. Changing the ways in which we read and value women's writing, it will produce new knowledge about early modern texts and their afterlives.
Charlotte Brontë and the romantic imagination. This project is an innovative reassessment of Charlotte Brontë's writing within the paradigm of Romanticism. For the first time, this project analyses Charlotte Brontë as a Romantic rather than a Victorian, revealing the creative origins of her work and the ideological role that aesthetics plays in creating meaning.
Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Poems (1820) as a unified volume. The primary aim of this proposal is to research and publish the first sustained critical study of John Keats's important collection of poems, 'Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems' (1820). Considered as a volume in its own right, the collection exhibits principles of thematic and aesthetic unity as yet unnoticed. Whereas other books on Keats's poetry invariably deal with individual poems in the chronological order ....Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Poems (1820) as a unified volume. The primary aim of this proposal is to research and publish the first sustained critical study of John Keats's important collection of poems, 'Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems' (1820). Considered as a volume in its own right, the collection exhibits principles of thematic and aesthetic unity as yet unnoticed. Whereas other books on Keats's poetry invariably deal with individual poems in the chronological order of their composition, this project aims to focus on Keats's shaping of the contents into a considered structure, grounded in themes that create a unified whole and provide a new context for the individual poems.Read moreRead less
Early Modern Women and the Institutions of Authorship: Publication, Collaboration, Translation. This project will provide the first in-depth account of early modern womens' contributions to the history of the book by considering their roles in publication, collaboration and translation. It aims to transform early modern book history by considering agents and forms of literary labour that have previously been deemed marginal to the discipline as a whole. In doing so, it will challenge and refine ....Early Modern Women and the Institutions of Authorship: Publication, Collaboration, Translation. This project will provide the first in-depth account of early modern womens' contributions to the history of the book by considering their roles in publication, collaboration and translation. It aims to transform early modern book history by considering agents and forms of literary labour that have previously been deemed marginal to the discipline as a whole. In doing so, it will challenge and refine categories of authorship that have been defined in almost exclusively masculine terms, providing a more complete and historically nuanced account of authorial institutions crucial to the future of early modern literary studies.Read moreRead less