| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Warren Hastings (1732-1818) is the first Governor-General of India (1774 -1784), and is later impeached for corruption, but acquitted after a seven-year trial. The purpose of the present research project is to illustrate how he is represented in the Romantic Literature, such as Phebe Gibbes’s Hartley House, Calcutta (1789), Richard Sheridan’s Pizzaro (1799) and others. First, I located the novels in which Hastings was mentioned, depicted, and referred to, within the context of politics, culture, and religion at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Second, I examined the way Hastings was represented in the Romantic Literature, in terms of his impeachment trial (1788-95), the East India Company he served for a long term, and Nabob who Hastings himself was typical of. Third, I investigated writers' political, racial, and religious consciousness latent in their works, for which their representation of Hastings provided clues.
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