Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone Writing, 1768-1914
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19K00446
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
Watson Alex 明治大学, 文学部, 専任准教授 (40609062)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | Pacific / Romanticism / Ninteenth century / English literature / Ninteenth Century / Paratexts / Travel writing / Annotation / Imperialism / Nineteenth century / Paratext / English Literature |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
From Captain Cook’s voyage in 1768 to the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the Pacific became the increasing focus of Anglophone literary imaginations. This project will investigate the important questions these paratexts raise about the distinction between factual and fiction representations and the relationship between British and American accounts of the region. It will also explore the parallels between the intellectual traffic traversing the margins of these texts and the movements of goods and commodities being transported across the Pacific.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research demonstrated that that the textual margins provided a central site in which British and American writers of the long nineteenth century constructed the Pacific. Such writings’ combination of cohesive text and fragmentary notes responded to the tension between the comprehensible identity writers were attempting to construct for the region, and the area’s geographical reality as a complexity of interlinked archipelagos with distinct histories, cultures and languages.
The research led to a number of peer-reviewed book chapters and journal artciles, as well as research presentaitons in Japan, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Taiwan and the USA. A further monograph placing this research in dialogue with perspectives in intermedia studies is planned.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This research examines how the conventions of the printed book shape Pacific representations and vice versa. The research sheds new light on the history of British and American Imperialsim and advances our understanding of how cultural images of the Pacific were created.
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Report
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Research Products
(36 results)
