Clare Brant
Biographic Data
| ID | 219064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Brant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Brant |
| SIGNATURE | BRANT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France
Here for 450 Million Years, Going Now: Ocean Timelines, Climate Crisis, and Life Writing
This article lays out a case for lifewriting scholars to think about numbers as an important constituent of climate crisis writing. Numbers are critical to how we describe time, plummeting numbers of species, and accelerating rates of extinction. Numbers are also critical to how we establish scales. I discuss infographics as a lifewriting genre that combines biography and numbers, a genre that lends temporary stability to otherwise unimaginable s…
Obituaries: A Dead Important Genre
Obituaries are micro-narratives in which distinct conventions and tensions are at work. Humanist and historical, emotional and dispassionate, philosophical and random, obituaries have a literary nexus that encompasses reverence, irreverence, grief and (in some cases) relief. My analysis starts with broadsheet obituaries of the late twentieth century, and models of reading the genre, which I re-read through counter-establishment Private Eye’s comi…
Death in a Nutshell: Frances Glessner Lee’s ‘Nutshell Studies in Unexplained Death’
Frances Glessner Lee’s miniature models of murder scenes are tiny marvels of making. They are durable teaching aids in forensic science, and have attracted biographical and poetic attention. What is their interest for life writing, and why
Life Writing and Death: Dialogues of the Dead
One thing in life we can be certain of: death. But how we talk about death—its inevitability, its causes and its course, its effects, or its places—is susceptible to changing cultural conditions. Reviewing a history of death that begins in prehistory, the distinguished historian of death Thomas Laqueur doubts it is possible to comprehend (in both senses) the topic: ‘Our awareness of death and the dead stands at the edge of culture. As such they m…
Fame and Fortune
The Placing of Displaced Lives: Refugee Narratives
This Forum is concerned with refugee life writing.It explores the discourses that shape public perception of forced migration and sheds light on the intricate relationship between the collective fate of refugees and the uniqueness of each life lived in transit
I Will Carry You with Me on the Wings of Immagination”: Aerial Letters and Eighteenth-Century Ballooning
Research Article| January 01 2011 “I Will Carry You with Me on the Wings of Immagination”: Aerial Letters and Eighteenth-Century Ballooning Clare Brant Clare Brant Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 168–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Clare Brant; “I Will Carry You with Me o…
Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture
Introduction: The Work of Life Writing
(2010). Introduction: The Work of Life Writing. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, The Work of Life Writing, pp. 157-161
Aeolus: Futurism's Flights of Fancy
Flight and imagination have long been connected, so their combination in futurist thought is rich with expectations. The life of Oliver Stewart, author of Aeolus, spanned Sopwith Pups to Concorde; his aeronautic experience, both civil and military, made him well placed to anticipate where both strands of aerial technology could go. Believing that autogiros would enable safe, affordable individual transport for short-haul flights, and that flying …
Translating Cuttlefish: Underwater Lifewritings
In underwater life-writing, poetry, marine biology, and memoir meet like ocean currents. Both biography-the subject is the sea-and autobiography-the subject is the writer-the genre's practitioners explore metaphor and metamorphosis in sea life and in themselves. In attempting to "translate" mysterious creatures like cuttlefish, writers draw on poetry and science to create rich and strange discourses that also "translate" humans into and out of an…
Scenting a Subject: Odour Poetics and the Politics of Space
Olfactory studies are truly multidisciplinary, from anthropology to zoology. What literary criticism can offer is analysis of the language of smell and the discourses of olfactory practice which give smell meanings. In this paper I explore the poetics of odour in selected contexts in the developed West of the twenty-first century. I argue that the language of smell is elusive, contradictory, disguised: nonetheless, it deploys metaphor, story, per…
Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture
Writing as a Historian
Devouring Time Finds Paper Toughish: What's Happened to Handwritten Letters in the Twenty-First Century
(2006). Devouring Time Finds Paper Toughish: What's Happened to Handwritten Letters in the Twenty-First Century? a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 21, Epistolarity in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 7-19
Fume and Perfume: Some Eighteenth-Century Uses of Smell
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Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Contributors include: Rosalind Ballaster, Hero Chalmers, Helen Hackett, Lorna Hutson, Kate Lilley, Bridget Orr, Sophie Tomlinson, Susan Wiseman
Armchair Politicians: Elections and Representations, 1774
Clare Brant, Armchair Politicians: Elections and Representations, 1774, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 17, No. 2, Political Discourse/British Women's Writing, 1640-1867 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 269-282
Every Picture Tells a History
Journal Article Every Picture Tells a History Get access British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960. By Marcia Landy. Princeton University Press, 1991. xiii + 553 pp. ISBN 0-691-00836-1. £11.99 pb. Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film. By Sue Harper. British Film Institute, 1993. x + 239 pp. ISBN 0-85170-449-2. £10.99 pb. CLARE BRANT CLARE BRANT King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Rethinking Sexual Harassment
Fume and Perfume: Some Eighteenth-Century Uses of Smell
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Scenting a Subject: Odour Poetics and the Politics of Space
Olfactory studies are truly multidisciplinary, from anthropology to zoology. What literary criticism can offer is analysis of the language of smell and the discourses of olfactory practice which give smell meanings. In this paper I explore the poetics of odour in selected contexts in the developed West of the twenty-first century. I argue that the language of smell is elusive, contradictory, disguised: nonetheless, it deploys metaphor, story, per…
Devouring Time Finds Paper Toughish: What's Happened to Handwritten Letters in the Twenty-First Century
(2006). Devouring Time Finds Paper Toughish: What's Happened to Handwritten Letters in the Twenty-First Century? a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 21, Epistolarity in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 7-19
Life Writing and Death: Dialogues of the Dead
One thing in life we can be certain of: death. But how we talk about death—its inevitability, its causes and its course, its effects, or its places—is susceptible to changing cultural conditions. Reviewing a history of death that begins in prehistory, the distinguished historian of death Thomas Laqueur doubts it is possible to comprehend (in both senses) the topic: ‘Our awareness of death and the dead stands at the edge of culture. As such they m…
The Placing of Displaced Lives: Refugee Narratives
This Forum is concerned with refugee life writing.It explores the discourses that shape public perception of forced migration and sheds light on the intricate relationship between the collective fate of refugees and the uniqueness of each life lived in transit
Aeolus: Futurism's Flights of Fancy
Flight and imagination have long been connected, so their combination in futurist thought is rich with expectations. The life of Oliver Stewart, author of Aeolus, spanned Sopwith Pups to Concorde; his aeronautic experience, both civil and military, made him well placed to anticipate where both strands of aerial technology could go. Believing that autogiros would enable safe, affordable individual transport for short-haul flights, and that flying …
Rethinking Sexual Harassment
Armchair Politicians: Elections and Representations, 1774
Clare Brant, Armchair Politicians: Elections and Representations, 1774, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 17, No. 2, Political Discourse/British Women's Writing, 1640-1867 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 269-282
Every Picture Tells a History
Journal Article Every Picture Tells a History Get access British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960. By Marcia Landy. Princeton University Press, 1991. xiii + 553 pp. ISBN 0-691-00836-1. £11.99 pb. Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film. By Sue Harper. British Film Institute, 1993. x + 239 pp. ISBN 0-85170-449-2. £10.99 pb. CLARE BRANT CLARE BRANT King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Contributors include: Rosalind Ballaster, Hero Chalmers, Helen Hackett, Lorna Hutson, Kate Lilley, Bridget Orr, Sophie Tomlinson, Susan Wiseman
Fume and Perfume: Some Eighteenth-Century Uses of Smell
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture
Writing as a Historian
Devouring Time Finds Paper Toughish: What's Happened to Handwritten Letters in the Twenty-First Century
(2006). Devouring Time Finds Paper Toughish: What's Happened to Handwritten Letters in the Twenty-First Century? a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 21, Epistolarity in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 7-19
Scenting a Subject: Odour Poetics and the Politics of Space
Olfactory studies are truly multidisciplinary, from anthropology to zoology. What literary criticism can offer is analysis of the language of smell and the discourses of olfactory practice which give smell meanings. In this paper I explore the poetics of odour in selected contexts in the developed West of the twenty-first century. I argue that the language of smell is elusive, contradictory, disguised: nonetheless, it deploys metaphor, story, per…
Aeolus: Futurism's Flights of Fancy
Flight and imagination have long been connected, so their combination in futurist thought is rich with expectations. The life of Oliver Stewart, author of Aeolus, spanned Sopwith Pups to Concorde; his aeronautic experience, both civil and military, made him well placed to anticipate where both strands of aerial technology could go. Believing that autogiros would enable safe, affordable individual transport for short-haul flights, and that flying …
Translating Cuttlefish: Underwater Lifewritings
In underwater life-writing, poetry, marine biology, and memoir meet like ocean currents. Both biography-the subject is the sea-and autobiography-the subject is the writer-the genre's practitioners explore metaphor and metamorphosis in sea life and in themselves. In attempting to "translate" mysterious creatures like cuttlefish, writers draw on poetry and science to create rich and strange discourses that also "translate" humans into and out of an…
Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture
Introduction: The Work of Life Writing
(2010). Introduction: The Work of Life Writing. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, The Work of Life Writing, pp. 157-161
I Will Carry You with Me on the Wings of Immagination”: Aerial Letters and Eighteenth-Century Ballooning
Research Article| January 01 2011 “I Will Carry You with Me on the Wings of Immagination”: Aerial Letters and Eighteenth-Century Ballooning Clare Brant Clare Brant Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 168–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Clare Brant; “I Will Carry You with Me o…
The Placing of Displaced Lives: Refugee Narratives
This Forum is concerned with refugee life writing.It explores the discourses that shape public perception of forced migration and sheds light on the intricate relationship between the collective fate of refugees and the uniqueness of each life lived in transit
Fame and Fortune
Obituaries: A Dead Important Genre
Obituaries are micro-narratives in which distinct conventions and tensions are at work. Humanist and historical, emotional and dispassionate, philosophical and random, obituaries have a literary nexus that encompasses reverence, irreverence, grief and (in some cases) relief. My analysis starts with broadsheet obituaries of the late twentieth century, and models of reading the genre, which I re-read through counter-establishment Private Eye’s comi…
Death in a Nutshell: Frances Glessner Lee’s ‘Nutshell Studies in Unexplained Death’
Frances Glessner Lee’s miniature models of murder scenes are tiny marvels of making. They are durable teaching aids in forensic science, and have attracted biographical and poetic attention. What is their interest for life writing, and why
Life Writing and Death: Dialogues of the Dead
One thing in life we can be certain of: death. But how we talk about death—its inevitability, its causes and its course, its effects, or its places—is susceptible to changing cultural conditions. Reviewing a history of death that begins in prehistory, the distinguished historian of death Thomas Laqueur doubts it is possible to comprehend (in both senses) the topic: ‘Our awareness of death and the dead stands at the edge of culture. As such they m…
Here for 450 Million Years, Going Now: Ocean Timelines, Climate Crisis, and Life Writing
This article lays out a case for lifewriting scholars to think about numbers as an important constituent of climate crisis writing. Numbers are critical to how we describe time, plummeting numbers of species, and accelerating rates of extinction. Numbers are also critical to how we establish scales. I discuss infographics as a lifewriting genre that combines biography and numbers, a genre that lends temporary stability to otherwise unimaginable s…
Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France
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