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.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130101688
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$295,363.00
Summary
The Song of Songs in Victorian literature and culture. What do literary and artistic references to the Bible tell us about love, marriage and gender? Discussing the influence of the biblical book, the Song of Songs, on literature and culture in the Victorian era, the project will answer this question.
The return of the omniscient narrator in contemporary fiction: authorship and narrative authority in the new millennium. An original study of how contemporary novelists have revived the voice of an all-knowing omniscient narrator to assert their literary authority in a multi-media age. The project will generate new knowledge about how fiction-writing techniques have adapted to historical changes, and provide fresh insight into the role of authors as public figures.