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  1. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe studies literature’s epistemic status during the modernist period. It homes in on writing from different registers (highbrow, avant-garde, middlebrow and more popular forms of...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Aix-Marseille Université
    Projet HORIZON « Les voix féminines de l’anti-féminisme »
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ce projet s’intéresse à la manière dont le mouvement féministe a pu être la cible d’attaques et d’oppositions de la part des femmes elles-mêmes. Des spécialistes de la « première vague » des féminismes anglo-américains se proposent d’explorer la...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.08.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    HANDLING: Writers Handling Pictures: a Material Intermediality (1880-today)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maniement, manipulation, manutention : que font les écrivains des images qu’ils ont en main ? HANDLING est un projet de recherche financé par une « Starting Grant » de l’ERC de 2019 à 2024. C’est un projet radicalement interdisciplinaire sur...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and visual studies,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Reassembling Modernism: Anglo-French Networks, Periodicals, Literary Analysis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project examines Anglo-French literary networks at the beginning of the twentieth century. If scholars have traditionally focused on American, British, or French authors in isolation, the present study explores their interconnections. It...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Literary and Intellectual History of European Romanticism in China (1894-1937)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project investigates the influence of political and literary romanticism on the literary works of early 20th century Chinese authors, in particular of Lu Xun.

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Painting Themselves: A Transnational Approach to National Self-Portraiture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This PhD project focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles pintados por sí mismos", aimed to underline national identity...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne Van Remoortel and based at the ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Vice, Scandal, and "News": 19th-Century Newspapers and their Literary Products
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My project emerges from within the context of the repeal of the taxes on knowledge (i.e. the removal of additional taxes for advertisements (1853), stamps (1855), and the weight of paper (1861)), honing in on the changing nature of the periodical...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Literarische Kleinformen als Aspekt einer politischen Erzähltheorie. Zur Annäherung von Gerüchtekommunikation und anekdotischem Erzählen in Literatur und Publizistik um 1800
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vor dem historischen Hintergrund der napoleonischen Kriege und politischer Romantik beeinflussen sich Gerüchtekommunikation und anekdotisches Erzählen wechselseitig. Dichter und Publizisten im Kreis der sogenannten Befreiungskrieger, insbesondere...

    Fields of research Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment),  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Glasgow
    Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women's Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    his HERA-funded collaborative research project studies the role of women’s writing in the transnational literary field during the long 19th century. It explores in terms of gender cultural encounters through reading and writing that contributed to...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The main goal of this project (besides critically bringing to light the literary and scientific production on India from the 19th and 20th centuries) is to determine the extent to which the Portuguese accumulation of knowledge on the Orient can be...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  South Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism - The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The TECOP project focuses on the study of Portuguese Orientalism within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. It seeks to give visibility to the Portuguese orientalists taking part in the International Congresses of Orientalists and to...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Literature as Event and Action: The Performativity of Literature in Sweden 1800 - 2008
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Cosmopolitan longings and vernacular belongings. Constantinople in literary fin-de-siècle and high modernism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of this subproject is to study experiences, conceptions and functions of Constantinople. It contributes to the programme’s theme of world-making and languages by looking at literary representations of “one” place across a number of languages,...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019