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Grant success for Warwick-Sao Paulo project on the 19th-century novel
Congratulations to Dr Ross Forman (Warwick, English) and Professor Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos (Letras Modernas, São Paulo), who have been awarded funding from the British Academy/Newton Trust for a one-year project, Displacements: the Novel without Frontiers.
The project, which explores the development of the novel as a genre during the long nineteenth century, will run from September 2015 to September 2016. Other Warwick participants include Kirsty Hooper (SMLC-Hispanic Studies), Christina Lupton and Michael Meeuwis (both ECL). Using the theme of “displacements” as its springboard, it aims to bring together work being done in the subfields of world literature, book history, postcolonial studies, and gender studies to chart the development of the novel as both a phenomenon that develops out of the specific circumstances of European industrialization, capitalism, and imperialism, as scholars long have recognized, but also a genre that resists these metanarratives both in terms of its transnational appeal and readership and in terms of “indigenization”/“indigeneity” in contexts like Latin America, India, and China.