I am currently working on a book entitled _Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840_, a study of the connections between Gothic architecture and literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 

When summarised in point-form, then, the aims of this project might be listed as follows:
•To provide a sustained account of the manifold connections between Gothic architectural history and British literary culture in the period 1760-1840.
•To assess the importance of Gothic architecture, actual, imaginary and metaphorical, to literary production in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
•To read a range of Gothic and Romantic texts, fictional, dramatic, poetic and otherwise, alongside the architectural tracts, Antiquarian and topographical studies, and popular guides to architectural style with which they were contemporary.
•To consider the competing constructions of the nation’s ancient medieval or ‘Gothic’ past that circulated within and across this range of literary and non-fictional texts, often at the limit of the contemporary divide between ‘history’ and ‘romance’.
•To assess the role played by literature in the rise of a notion of 'Heritage' from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards.  

In the first instance, I am looking for interested parties with whom I might collaborate on this project, with view to submitting an application for Funding to the Heritage initiative.  Requirements stipulate that the project is to be transnational, and involve at least 3 countries.

Anyone working on similar / or related projects of interest who might be keen to pursue a research-grant application?

With thanks,
Dale Townshend
University of Stirling
Scotland