Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452745

Funded Activity Summary

The discourse of the South: the Mediterranean, South America and the Pacific in nineteenth-century British and American literature. The project investigates styles and traditions of English writing about southern Europe in the nineteenth century, and their influence on broader imaginative geographies. It tests the hypothesis that a paradigmatic north-south encounter, developed in British and American writing on the Mediterranean, created a 'discourse of the South' which shaped Anglo-American representations of Latin America and the Pacific. It asks whether the discourse of the South, as a model for understanding geocultural difference, is more applicable to certain post-colonial contexts than the Orientalist paradigm, which dominates current thinking about differences of place and race in literature.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 30-06-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $75,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

British And Irish | Literary Studies | North American |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

British And Irish | Languages and Literature | Literary Studies | North American

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