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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101591
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Religious nonconformity and performance in Britain (circa 1620-1680). This project analyses the ways in which religious nonconformity was practised in 17th Century Britain and its relationship to dramatic performance. Its theoretical approach focuses on audience, space, dissimulation, conversion and belief; knowledge of proscribed religion and performance is increased through its application to historical case-studies.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200101675
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$419,950.00
Summary
War-Widow, Mother, Slave, Refugee: Andromache in Romantic Europe. This project aims to uncover how Andromache, a prominent classical figure in the Trojan wars, was represented and deployed to shape the literature, politics and culture of Romantic-era Europe. Its expected outcome is a significant reassessment of an understudied figure, focusing on her portrayals as a grieving widow, slave and refugee in times of national crisis and change, especially the Napoleonic wars. Its innovative method com ....War-Widow, Mother, Slave, Refugee: Andromache in Romantic Europe. This project aims to uncover how Andromache, a prominent classical figure in the Trojan wars, was represented and deployed to shape the literature, politics and culture of Romantic-era Europe. Its expected outcome is a significant reassessment of an understudied figure, focusing on her portrayals as a grieving widow, slave and refugee in times of national crisis and change, especially the Napoleonic wars. Its innovative method combines literary studies, musicology, cultural and material history, and emotions history. The project intends to strengthen Australia’s leading role in Romantic studies, enrich cultural life, and foster community reflection on the significant challenges of migration, refugees, gender and violence, war and emotions.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE240101070
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$351,135.00
Summary
Modernism's East Asia: Semi-Asiatic Literature and Global Modernity . This project aims to harness two important topics in the humanities: the global significance of culturally hybrid nations for global modernity, and the significance of East Asian Studies for World Literature. It compares the reception of French and Russian literatures in the West and East Asia by examining texts written mainly in English, French, and Japanese. Its expected outcome is a reevaluation of East Asia's role in the c ....Modernism's East Asia: Semi-Asiatic Literature and Global Modernity . This project aims to harness two important topics in the humanities: the global significance of culturally hybrid nations for global modernity, and the significance of East Asian Studies for World Literature. It compares the reception of French and Russian literatures in the West and East Asia by examining texts written mainly in English, French, and Japanese. Its expected outcome is a reevaluation of East Asia's role in the conceptualization of global modernism and modernity in the arts and society. Its innovative methodology combines East Asian Studies, English and French Literature, philosophy, and the history of ideas. It intends to fortify Australia's position in the humanities and increase its understanding of its own diverse history.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101275
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$321,380.00
Summary
Samuel Beckett and the French Literary Tradition: Bilingualism as Method. Moving between French and English, Samuel Beckett's bilingual writing practice offers a unique record of how the artistic imagination engages with the experience of migration. To date, studies of Beckett concentrate on his involvement with the Anglophone expatriate communities and the French literary coteries of post-war Paris. They neglect, however, the impact of Beckett's grounding in the French literary tradition from t ....Samuel Beckett and the French Literary Tradition: Bilingualism as Method. Moving between French and English, Samuel Beckett's bilingual writing practice offers a unique record of how the artistic imagination engages with the experience of migration. To date, studies of Beckett concentrate on his involvement with the Anglophone expatriate communities and the French literary coteries of post-war Paris. They neglect, however, the impact of Beckett's grounding in the French literary tradition from the sixteenth century onwards. By filling this gap, this project aims to quantify how French and English cultural heritages are processed differently in the French and English versions of his works. The project will illuminate how national literatures are reshaped through cultural translation.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230100098
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$369,859.00
Summary
Law, Literature and Naturalization in an Age of Empire. The history of naturalization offers significant insights into how sociocultural and legal limits on citizenship evolved, and how these limits were imposed and experienced before the advent of border restrictions. Deploying innovative methods at the intersection of literary, legal and cultural history, this project aims to provide the first global account of Jewish naturalization during the British empire’s expansion, a crucial phase in imm ....Law, Literature and Naturalization in an Age of Empire. The history of naturalization offers significant insights into how sociocultural and legal limits on citizenship evolved, and how these limits were imposed and experienced before the advent of border restrictions. Deploying innovative methods at the intersection of literary, legal and cultural history, this project aims to provide the first global account of Jewish naturalization during the British empire’s expansion, a crucial phase in immigration history. This account will generate new knowledge about how minority communities are incorporated into the state. Its benefits include a new framework to document the lives of migrants and refugees and the development of novel cultural resources to address the social challenges of migration. Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130101179
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$289,185.00
Summary
The Australian penal colonies and British print culture, 1786-1900. This project is the first comprehensive investigation of the literature surrounding convict transportation and the Australian penal colonies, and its relationship to British print culture in the nineteenth century. Grounded in empirical research, the project will foster a new understanding of a foundational aspect of Australian cultural history.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101612
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$334,746.00
Summary
The republic of feeling: Literary friendship between women, 1750-1830. This project will investigate a rare archive of letters and manuscript materials to examine forms of literary friendship between women in the eighteenth century. This was a period of unprecedented globalisation: letter-based networks stretched across continents. Such connections were conceived in terms of a modern Republic of Letters, an idealised fraternity of scholars and writers who set aside differences in order to foster ....The republic of feeling: Literary friendship between women, 1750-1830. This project will investigate a rare archive of letters and manuscript materials to examine forms of literary friendship between women in the eighteenth century. This was a period of unprecedented globalisation: letter-based networks stretched across continents. Such connections were conceived in terms of a modern Republic of Letters, an idealised fraternity of scholars and writers who set aside differences in order to foster the exchange of information and ideas. This study of fresh manuscript materials will assist in exploring the history of English-speaking intellectual networks and international exchange in early modernity and the place of women within them. The project is located within the long history of global, material and intellectual exchanges in which European Australia was settled. Looking to the past, the project simultaneously contributes to contemporary debates over the possibilities and pitfalls of cultural ‘cosmopolitanism’ as a mode of transnational exchange.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100144
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$333,331.00
Summary
The Charitable Child: Children and Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century. This project reconceptualises the relationship between children and philanthropic institutions in the nineteenth century by researching the role of children as active supporters of philanthropic enterprises. Despite numerous charitable campaigns in the British and colonial periodical press aimed at children, little has been done to explore how and why children became sympathetic towards others. This project will explore h ....The Charitable Child: Children and Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century. This project reconceptualises the relationship between children and philanthropic institutions in the nineteenth century by researching the role of children as active supporters of philanthropic enterprises. Despite numerous charitable campaigns in the British and colonial periodical press aimed at children, little has been done to explore how and why children became sympathetic towards others. This project will explore how children operated as agents of philanthropy within imperial, missionary and national confines and will focus on the implications of race and gender in the development of charitable activities. Read moreRead less
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.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100621
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$330,042.00
Summary
Reproducing Renaissance drama: editing and publishing the plays of early modern England, 1744-2012. With fresh insights from archival materials supported by quantitative and qualitative research methods, this project offers the first extended study of the editing and publishing of English Renaissance drama since the eighteenth century and its relationship to the formation of the dramatic canon.