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Clara Tuite

Professor
Culture and Communication
arts & humanities
literature
literary theory & criticism
literary studies
history
literary criticism
jane austen
sanditon
british and irish; languages and literature
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Prof

Clara Tuite

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Romantic-period literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Projects

Displaying the 5 most recent projects by Clara Tuite.

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Regency Romanticism: Ireland, Britain and Australia, 1788-1848

This project aims to produce an interdisciplinary and transnational history of Regency culture, focusing on how Regency culture connected Ir..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Romantic-period piracy, sociability and the book trade

2014 - 2014
Completed
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Literary Romanticism and the Media of Romantic Love: A Cultural History, 1774-1840

This project will produce a groundbreaking cultural history of romantic love that analyses romantic love not as a feeling but as a code of c..

2012 - 2016
Completed
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE PRODUCTION OF BRITISH HISTORY 1763 - 1886

This project addresses the critical neglect of women who engaged in writing history in Britain during the nineteenth century. It will demons..

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Romantic literary celebrity & the emergence of modern literary culture, 1798-1910

This project will produce the first full-length study of Romantic literary celebrity (1798-1910). It will argue that a new form of literary ..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Clara Tuite.

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30 Great Myths about Jane Austen

Claudia L Johnson, Clara Tuite

Book  |  2020

This volume takes 30 of the most powerful myths about Austen and explores their social, emotional, and imaginative lives—showing h..

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“Speechless: Werther-Fever and the Media of Romantic Love”

Clara Tuite

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cultural and Social History

This essay interrogates the culture of romantic love by examining the trope of speechlessness, analysing a particularly resonant m..

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"Literatoor” and Literary Theory

Clara Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2020

George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788–1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, p..

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Any Mortal Thing

Clara Tuite

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Byron Journal

‘“Poesy” may be merely a “straw”, a “paper kite”, a “shadow”, and a “bubble”, but its very lightness and fragility, so Byron’s buo..

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Byron in Context

C Tuite

Book  |  2020

George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788–1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, p..

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Introduction: Byron in Context

Clara Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2020

George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788–1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, p..

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Introduction

C Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2019

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When the Earth Moves

Clara Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, nov..

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Redeemed from the Worm: Manfred’s Celebrity Revenge Tragedy

Clara Tuite

Journal article  |  2019  |  Romantic Circles Praxis

This essay considers Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817) as a form of revenge tragedy. It takes its cues from the text’s Hamlet epigra..

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Lord Byron's Preposterous Liberalism

C Tuite

Journal article  |  2018  |  Occasion

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Communication
Literary Studies
Literature Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Historical Studies
Other Language, Literature and Culture
Religion and Ethics

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2015

Elma Dangerfield Prize for Best Book

International Association of Byron Societies (IABS)
2003

Finalist for MLA Prize for a First Book

Modern Language Association (MLA)
2017

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Culture and Communication

Fellow

Australian Academy of the Humanities

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

The Australian National University