Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100238
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$313,000.00
Summary
Georgiana Molloy, Life Writing and Environment in 1830s Western Australia. This project aims to use ecobiography, a mode of life-writing that details the relationship of a person with their environment, to prompt a reconsideration of the anthropocentric relationship between humans and non-humans in a settler colony. Through analysis of archival and contemporary writing on the environment of 1830s south-west Western Australia, it aims to illuminate interactions between botanist Georgiana Molloy, ....Georgiana Molloy, Life Writing and Environment in 1830s Western Australia. This project aims to use ecobiography, a mode of life-writing that details the relationship of a person with their environment, to prompt a reconsideration of the anthropocentric relationship between humans and non-humans in a settler colony. Through analysis of archival and contemporary writing on the environment of 1830s south-west Western Australia, it aims to illuminate interactions between botanist Georgiana Molloy, the Noongar people and plants. The resulting monograph will be designed to demonstrate how syntheses of the sciences and humanities can respond creatively to environmental deterioration. The project also intends to contribute to recent scholarship on Aboriginal agency and land management practices.Read moreRead less
Populating the Nation: A Genealogy of Colonial Australian Character Types. This project investigates the vast array of character types mobilised by colonial writers in Australia from the mid-1800s to the beginning of the First World War. Rural Australia saw numerous character types introduced into the landscape (the rouseabout, the selector, the bush parson, and so on), but the cities also saw a proliferation of types that turned metropolitan Australia into a fluid, complex and often spectacular ....Populating the Nation: A Genealogy of Colonial Australian Character Types. This project investigates the vast array of character types mobilised by colonial writers in Australia from the mid-1800s to the beginning of the First World War. Rural Australia saw numerous character types introduced into the landscape (the rouseabout, the selector, the bush parson, and so on), but the cities also saw a proliferation of types that turned metropolitan Australia into a fluid, complex and often spectacular social space. This project examines colonial character types across print and visual culture as a matter of national investment, conceived in terms of their capacity to contribute to a rapidly-growing and increasingly modern colonial cultural economy.Read moreRead less
The circulation of colonial literary culture in Australia: mapping the literary magazines and periodicals. Colonial magazines were a vibrant part of Australia's emergent literary culture. They fashioned new writers, investing in local identities while also engaging in global events. This project will map the literary economies of these magazines, focusing on popular genres and key themes such as nation building, indigeneity, gender and cosmopolitanism.
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
Eco-colonial Australian literature and the shaping of Australia’s environmental consciousness. This project aims to consider how colonial Australian literary writing shaped Australia's environmental consciousness. It will explore how colonial Australian literature expressed ecological issues: questions of land clearance, species classification, habitat, extinction, climate change and the effect of environmental disasters. By examining colonial Australian literary writing, natural historians’ wor ....Eco-colonial Australian literature and the shaping of Australia’s environmental consciousness. This project aims to consider how colonial Australian literary writing shaped Australia's environmental consciousness. It will explore how colonial Australian literature expressed ecological issues: questions of land clearance, species classification, habitat, extinction, climate change and the effect of environmental disasters. By examining colonial Australian literary writing, natural historians’ works and debates about the management of resources, this project expects to reveal our literary past and add historical depth to current environmental concerns in Australia.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.
The modern Athenians: Francis Jeffrey's Edinburgh Review (1802-1829) in the 'knowledge economy' of the early nineteenth century. This study of the multi-disciplinary nature and influence of the Edinburgh Review under Francis Jeffrey and its contribution to the organisation and dissemination of knowledge in the early nineteenth-century utilises developments in web design and technology to create a comprehensive website dedicated to Edinburgh Review.
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Emotions change over time; yet the long-term causes and consequences of changing emotional experiences and expressions remain largely unknown. This Centre will revolutionize research in the Humanities and Creative Arts by initiating innovative research collaborations across many disciplines to account for long-term changes and continuities in emotional regimes in Europe 1100-1800. For the first time we will fully analyse the social, cultural ....ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Emotions change over time; yet the long-term causes and consequences of changing emotional experiences and expressions remain largely unknown. This Centre will revolutionize research in the Humanities and Creative Arts by initiating innovative research collaborations across many disciplines to account for long-term changes and continuities in emotional regimes in Europe 1100-1800. For the first time we will fully analyse the social, cultural and political effects of mass emotional events. Links with cultural industry partners in art, drama and music will enable reflective performance research on communication of emotions, and illuminate the Western cultural foundations of emotions in modern Australia.Read moreRead less
Christina Stead and the socialist heritage. This project explores the complex intersection of political convictions and creativity in the writing of Christina Stead, and gives due prominence to her radical, left-wing engagements, which fell from favour during and after the Cold War. It will produce the first monograph-length study devoted to this crucial aspect of Stead's life and work.
Chronometrics: Cross-Temporal Approaches to Literature and Culture. The aim of this project is to produce a comparative cultural history of time, with particular emphasis on how temporality has been represented in literary works from the Middle Ages to the present day. Tracking the genealogy of temporality is expected to raise important questions about relationships between literature and history, and about ways in which cultural artifacts of various kinds interact with the environment that prod ....Chronometrics: Cross-Temporal Approaches to Literature and Culture. The aim of this project is to produce a comparative cultural history of time, with particular emphasis on how temporality has been represented in literary works from the Middle Ages to the present day. Tracking the genealogy of temporality is expected to raise important questions about relationships between literature and history, and about ways in which cultural artifacts of various kinds interact with the environment that produces them. The project also aims to explore how Australian conceptions of temporality serve to highlight aspects of the sequence of time that have been implicit, though largely suppressed, in other cultures. The major output planned is a significant monograph on this topic.Read moreRead less