A textual and critical study of Charlotte Brontë. This project aims to reinterpret Charlotte Brontë’s original novels, which are stranger, more unsettling, and more artistically and socially challenging than the available editions lead readers to believe. This strangeness, so apparent in her manuscripts, is moderated in all print versions of the novels because Brontë’s punctuation was radically altered by the printers who altered them for the first editions, with profound effects on the novels a ....A textual and critical study of Charlotte Brontë. This project aims to reinterpret Charlotte Brontë’s original novels, which are stranger, more unsettling, and more artistically and socially challenging than the available editions lead readers to believe. This strangeness, so apparent in her manuscripts, is moderated in all print versions of the novels because Brontë’s punctuation was radically altered by the printers who altered them for the first editions, with profound effects on the novels and their interpretation. This project will restore the original versions in a new scholarly print/digital edition, reproduce them along with the print versions in an innovative online critical archive of Brontë texts and contexts and analyse them in a book-length reinterpretation of the novels. In collaboration with prestigious international cultural institutions including The British Library, Morgan Library and Brontë Parsonage Museum, this project will create new ways for the general public to engage closely with some of the most important and least accessible documents of western literary heritage.
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Life After Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage. This project aims to do the following: 1. digitise significant cultural collections held across Western Australia, including Aboriginal languages, the WA performing arts collection, and selected objects of significance from across the State. 2. develop world-leading post-digitisation socialisation processes for the storage, management and dissemination of these collections. The project's significance lies in the preserva ....Life After Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage. This project aims to do the following: 1. digitise significant cultural collections held across Western Australia, including Aboriginal languages, the WA performing arts collection, and selected objects of significance from across the State. 2. develop world-leading post-digitisation socialisation processes for the storage, management and dissemination of these collections. The project's significance lies in the preservation of the collections and the development of sustainable access protocols for the collection owners. Expected outcomes include digital preservation of the collections, plus new protocols and procedures for their digitisation and dissemination. Benefits include preservation of, and systems for access to, these collections.
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