| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The concept of sensibility was a popular theme of mid-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century British novels. I demonstrated that the popularization of sensibility was largely due to the development of neurology and the spread of medical knowledge among well-educated lay public. As the concept of sensibility was accepted, women's physical frailty and lack of decision-making ability were the signs of womanly sensibility and delicacy. Women dared to feign to be ill to accommodate to what was deemed model women. As a result, hysteria, anorexia nervosa, and other ailments were regarded as symptoms peculiar to delicate women. These are verified based upon medical texts published from the mid-eighteenth to early-nineteenth centuries.
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