Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101612

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE150101612

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity 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 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2015

End Date: 06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $334,746.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | British and Irish Literature | Comparative Literature Studies | History of Ideas

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Understanding Europe's Past | Understanding Australia's Past |

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