An Analysis of Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century British Novel
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20520239
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAGATOMI Tomomi Sophia University, 文学部, 准教授 (60305399)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | 結婚法 / 身内 / 他人 / supplement / 結婚 / 私生児 / 相続 / 土地屋敷 / センセーション・ノヴェル / 他者 / 血縁/類縁 / 女性の自伝 / 19世紀イングランドにおける結婚法 / 従兄妹間の結婚 / ハードウィック結婚法 / Mansfield Park / Jane Eyre / ジェンダー / リンドハースト結婚法 / 保険 / 語りの空白 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this project, paying particular attention to Hardwicke Marriage Act (1753) and Lindhurst Act of 1835, and making a close examination of the primary sources on those Acts, I tried to identify the point at which the socio-cultural discourses surrounding marriage in the 18^<th> and 19^<th> century should come across the novelistic discourses of the time, and thus proved that the 19^<th> century British novel habitually resorted to the rhetoric of relative/other in order to fulfil their marriage plots. In addition to this rhetorical strategy, there were new and inspiring viewpoints for analytical approaches to some 19^<th> century British novels, for instance, 'female autobiography', 'supplement', 'disinherited country house', 'illegitimacy', which I employed to excavate further readings of Jane Eyre, Lady Audley's Secret and The Mayor of Casterbridge, and thereby exploiting new possibilities of the novels.
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