Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208339

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208339

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature, Popular Culture and Urban Experience in Colonial Melbourne. This study will contextualise Marcus Clarke's career in terms of the material culture of nineteenth-century Melbourne, producing the first complete and theoretically informed monograph on Australia's most important colonial prose writer. Clarke's self-conscious bohemianism highlighted the increasingly commercialised nature of nineteenth-century writing, the centrality of mass entertainment to urban life, the circulation of cultural capital between Europe and Australia, and the emergence of Australian literary nationalism in a larger imperial context. His career is thus uniquely positioned to elucidate the hitherto under-explored but pivotal relationship between literature and commodified popular culture in the specific context of an Australian settler-colony.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $110,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | Comparative Literature Studies | Australian And New Zealand | Literary Theory |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Australian And New Zealand | Comparative Literature Studies | Languages and Literature | Literary Studies | Literary Theory | Studies in human society | Understanding Australia'S Past

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