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Overview
Background
Lisa specializes in British Literature of the eighteenth-century. She trained at Melbourne and Brown universities and has held fellowships at various international English departments including Johns Hopkins University and the Free University Berlin.
Her research interests include the history of the novel, marriage plots, sentimental fiction, gothic fiction, theories of enlightenment and secularization and early global literatures.
Lisa has published on topics including the English marriage plot, libertinism, popular anthropology, travel narrative, settler fiction and courtesan memoirs. Her Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Projects include 'Secularisation and British Literature, 1600-1800' and 'The Cultural Impact of Irregular Marriage in the Age of British Colonialism'.
Her most recent book, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2019), offers a new account of why and how marriage became central to the English novel.
She is currently Associate Professor of English Literature in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. Her most recent work is on the history and theory of the novel and its relation to early global literatures.
Availability
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Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Melbourne
- Masters (Coursework), University of Melbourne
- Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University
Research interests
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18th-Century British literature
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The History of the Novel
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Theories of Enlightenment & Secularisation
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Global Fiction
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Women’s writing (18th & 19th century)
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Studies
settler colonial writing (Australia & New Zealand); British travel writing 1700-1820; 18th-century popular ethnography; early global literatures.
Works
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2005
Journal Article
Incest, sexuality, and modernity: Incest and the English novel
O'Connell, Lisa M. (2005). Incest, sexuality, and modernity: Incest and the English novel. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 8 (2/3), 298-301.
2004
Book Chapter
Authorship and libertine celebrity: Harriette Wilson’s regency memoirs
O'Connell, Lisa (2004). Authorship and libertine celebrity: Harriette Wilson’s regency memoirs. Libertine enlightenment: Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. (pp. 161-181) edited by P. Cryle. London: Palgrave. doi: 10.1057/9780230522817
2004
Book Chapter
Gender, Sexuality and the Family: Women's Writing, Language and Readership in The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832
O'Connell, Lisa M. (2004). Gender, Sexuality and the Family: Women's Writing, Language and Readership in The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832. Defining gender, 1450-1910 : five centuries of advice literature online. (pp. Online-Online) edited by Sara Mendelson, Claire Walsh, Jeremy Black and Erika Rappaport. Online: Adam Matthew Publications.
2003
Book
Libertine enlightenment: sex liberty and licence in the eighteenth century
Cryle, Peter and O'Connell, Lisa (2003). Libertine enlightenment: sex liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230522817
2003
Book Chapter
Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century
Cryle, P. M. and O'Connell, L. M. (2003). Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century. (pp. 1-14) edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell. Basingstoke, England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230522817
2003
Book Chapter
Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed: Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism
O'Connell, Lisa (2003). Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed: Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism. Exoticism and the Culture of Exploration. (pp. 98-116) edited by Robert Maccubbin and Christa Knellwolf. Durham: Duke University Press.
2002
Journal Article
"Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed": Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism
O'Connell, Lisa (2002). "Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed": Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism. Eighteenth-Century Life, 26 (3), 98-116. doi: 10.1215/00982601-26-3-98
2002
Book Chapter
Scotland 1800: A Tourist's Matrimonial Guide
O'Connell, L. M. (2002). Scotland 1800: A Tourist's Matrimonial Guide. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. (pp. 21-44) edited by H Gilbert and A Johnston. New York: Peter Lang.
2001
Journal Article
Review Essay on Andrew Elfenbein's Romantic Genius
O'Connell, L. M. (2001). Review Essay on Andrew Elfenbein's Romantic Genius. AUMLA, 95 (May), 118-119.
2001
Journal Article
Dislocating Literature: The Novel and the Gretna Green Romance, 1770-1850
O'Connell, L. M. (2001). Dislocating Literature: The Novel and the Gretna Green Romance, 1770-1850. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 35 (1), 5-23. doi: 10.2307/1346041
1999
Journal Article
Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture
O'Connell, Lisa Marie (1999). Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 11 (1), 68-111.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Feminist Affect - Reading for Love, Knowledge and Transcendence
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Tim Mehigan
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
English and Chinese Courtship Novels in the Long Eighteenth Century: Literature, Modernity, and Globalisation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jennifer Clement
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2016
Master Philosophy
In a Land Far Away: Time, Space, Degeneration, and the Gothic in the Island Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson
Principal Advisor
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2004
Master Philosophy
Infamous imaginings: The novels of Lady Caroline Lamb
Principal Advisor
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2019
Master Philosophy
Flyaway: Visual Evocation of the Beautiful Sublime in Australian Gothic Fiction
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2012
Master Philosophy
Fragments of Mirrors
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Liminal Dissonance and Doublings: The Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helen Oyeyemi
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier
Media
Enquiries
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- British literature - eighteenth century
- Eighteenth-century British literature
- English marriage plot
- Fiction - gothic
- Gothic fiction
- Literature - British
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