Porscha Fermanis
University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her research interests include global Romanticisms; Romantic-era historiography and historical fiction; the philosophy of history; the relationship between Enlightenment and Romanticism; the Godwin-Shelley circle; and the work of John Keats. She is the author of John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment (2009); Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 (ed. with John Regan, 2014); Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (with Carmen Casaliggi, 2016); and Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction, and Feeling in Britain and Ireland, 1790-1850 (forthcoming 2018). Prof. Fermanis is currently working on a study of literary institutions and taste-formation in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) from 1800-1870.University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her research interests include global Romanticisms; Romantic-era historiography and historical fiction; the philosophy of history; the relationship between Enlightenment and Romanticism; the Godwin-Shelley circle; and the work of John Keats. She is the author of John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment (2009); Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 (ed. with John Regan, 2014); Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (with Carmen Casaliggi, 2016); and Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction, and Feeling in Britain and Ireland, 1790-1850 (forthcoming 2018). Prof. Fermanis is currently working on a study of literary institutions and taste-formation in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) from 1800-1870.
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About Porscha Fermanis
University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her research interests include global Romanticisms; Romantic-era historiography and historical fiction; the philosophy of history; the relationship between Enlightenment and Romanticism; the Godwin-Shelley circle; and the work of John Keats. She is the author of John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment (2009); Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 (ed. with John Regan, 2014); Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (with Carmen Casaliggi, 2016); and Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction, and Feeling in Britain and Ireland, 1790-1850 (forthcoming 2018). Prof. Fermanis is currently working on a study of literary institutions and taste-formation in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) from 1800-1870.
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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
