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Clara Tuite

Professor Of English
Culture and Communication
Literary history
Romanticism
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and culture
Lord Byron
Jane Austen
History of the novel
Queer and sexuality studies
Sociability, celebrity and public intimacy
History of romantic love
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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

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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 - 2022
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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Romantic-period piracy, sociability and the book trade

2014 - 2014
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

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’Liquid lines’: Byron Among the Amatory Poets

Clara Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2021

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ANITA BROOKNER: NECROMANTIC

Clara Tuite

Journal article  |  2021  |  Etudes anglaises (Periodical)

Anita Brookner came to fiction late, publishing her first novel at the age of fifty-three after a distinguished career as an histo..

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Lag Fever, Flash Men and Late Fashionable Worlds

Clara Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2021

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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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“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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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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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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BYRON IN CONTEXT Introduction

Clara Tuite

Book Chapter  |  2020

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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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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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Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Communication
Understanding Past Societies
Historical Studies
Creative and Professional Writing
Other Language, Communication and Culture
Religion

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2022

Medal accpeted - HRC0329443

University of Melbourne
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 Of English

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