War-Widow, Mother, Slave, Refugee: Andromache in Romantic Europe

Summary
Andromache is hardly a household name today, but in Romantic-era Europe this Trojan princess and Greek captive was a popular figure, and indeed a figure of popular culture – appearing in operas, plays, ladies’ fashion magazines, life-writing, oil paintings and cheap satirical prints, on porcelain, earthenware, clocks and fans, and even popping up in the shipping news. What drew Enlightenment and Romantic audiences to Andromache, and whatever happened to her in later periods? Dr Stanyon’s project explores these questions, showing how Andromache was represented and deployed to shape the literature, politics and culture of Romantic-era Europe. Andromache emerges as a powerful – if not always straightforward – resource for nations facing crisis and change, shedding light on histories of war and emotions, gendered violence, refugees and migration.
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Research projects
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- Azuchi Screens Research Network
- Beyond Identity: Romanticism and Decreation
- British Romanticism and colonial modernity in India, 1780-1840
- Climate Science Denialism and its populist Analogs
- Critique, Creativity, Innovation
- Extremism and the Australian Imaginary
- Gothic Fictions: Emotion, Contagion, and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity
- Human Kind: transforming identity in Australian and British portraits 1700-1900
- Islam and the Left in Indonesia and Turkey
- Kenzaburo Ōe and William Blake: Modernity, Romanticism, Japan
- Literary Romanticism and the Media of Romantic Love
- Natural Born Subjects: A Cultural History of Naturalization in Britain and the Australian Colonies, 1660-1850
- New tastemakers and Australia's post-digital literary culture
- Observation and Analogy in Enlightenment and Romantic Natural History
- Reconstructing museum specimen data through the pathways of global commerce
- Regency Flash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1788-1848
- Romantic Worlding
- The Butterfly Men of Kuranda: natural history dealers in the 'deep north'
- The George Lyell Collection
- The Past and Present of Sugar
- The Pasts and Futures of Virtual Reality
- Theorising the online anti-public sphere
- War-Widow, Mother, Slave, Refugee: Andromache in Romantic Europe
- William Blake and the History of Imagination: Poetry, Prophecy, and Secularization
- World Literatures, Theatres and Cultures research network