Gothic Fiction and Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, and the transformation of experience in modernity

这个项目修改我们的哥特式小说，十八世纪末和十九世纪初最重要的散文体裁的理解。其突破性的论点和创新的方法有助于发展澳大利亚在浪漫主义研究中的国际声誉，同时扩大文学研究的方法库。该项目通过促进关于情感、文学和想象世界的“真理”地位（以及它们之间的关系）的辩论来增加我们的文化。它通过对当代经验概念发展的一个关键阶段、虚构的、想象的/虚拟的世界以及现代表征危机的修正性叙述，增加了我们对现在的理解。

This project revises our understanding of Gothic Fiction, the most important prose genre of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Its ground-breaking argument and innovative methodology help develop Australia's international reputation in Romantic studies, while expanding the methodological repertoire of literary studies. The project adds to our culture by contributing to debates about the 'truth' status of (and relation between) emotions, literature, and imagined worlds. It adds to our understanding of the present, through its revisionary account of a key stage in the development of contemporary notions of experience, the fictive, imagined/virtual worlds, and the modern crisis of representation.