Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344748

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344748

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, and the emergence of Virtual Reality. This project contends that virtual reality first emerges during the Romantic Period (1780-1830). Further, it argues that the contemporary prominence of virtual reality rests to a surprising degree on assumptions about the virtual that derive from this earlier period. To establish this aetiology of perhaps the most important phenomenon of the digital age, the project focuses on the production of virtual reality in Enlightenment schemes for managing the real, popular entertainment, and Romanticism. It will make a major contribution to debates concerning Romanticism and (post)modernity, and to our understanding of the cultural histories that shape our reception of computer technologies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $166,114.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

British And Irish | Literary Studies | History: British |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

British And Irish | History: British | Languages and Literature | Literary Studies | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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