An Interdisciplinary Study of Utopian Discourse in the Long Nineteenth Century from the viewpoint of Human Transposition and Imagination

• Project/Area Number: 21520235
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Fukushima University
• Principal Investigator: KAWATA Jun 福島大学, 人間発達文化学類, 准教授 (70323186)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: ユートピア / 社会主義 / 帝国主義 / 移動 / 想像力 / 長い十九世紀 / 希望の原理 / サイエンスフィクション / 進化論 / 長い19世紀 / 帝国論 / ジェンダー論 / 幸福論 / 労働

Research Abstract

This study clarified creative characteristics of the utopian discourse in the Long Nineteenth Century through reexamining them from the viewpoint of human transposition and imagination. Though utopian texts in the nineteenth century have been regarded as dystopian, they can be interpreted as creative discourse with heterogeneous possibilities. I conducted this study in the following three steps :(1) Collecting disregarded utopian texts in the age.(2) Examining (1)'s texts through the viewpoint of actual / imaginary transposition.(3) Clarifying not only dystopian characteristics but also different and new utopian characteristics in them.

Research Products

• [Presentation] シェイクスピアに恋して.Margaret CavendishとOriginalityの問題 (2011)
  • Author(s): 川田潤
  • Organizer: 第50回日本シェイクスピア学会
  • Place of Presentation: 聖心女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-10-22
• [Presentation] シェイクスピアに恋して-Margaret CavendishとOriginalityの問題 (2011)
  • Author(s): 川田潤
  • Organizer: 日本シェイクスピア学会
  • Place of Presentation: 聖心女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-10-22
• [Presentation] 科学、帝国、ユートピア-Joseph Banksと旅と蒐集 (2010)
  • Author(s): 川田潤
  • Organizer: 第65回東北英文学会シンポジアム『蒐集と想像のイギリス文化史』
  • Place of Presentation: 於仙台白百合女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-26
• [Presentation] 科学、帝国、ユートピア-Joseph Banksと旅と蒐集 (2010)
  • Author(s): 川田潤
  • Organizer: 東北英文学会(日本英文学会東北支部)
  • Place of Presentation: 仙台白百合女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-26
• [Presentation] ヒューマニズムと批評家/作者/行為主体 (2009)
  • Author(s): 川田潤
  • Organizer: テクスト研究学会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学豊中キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-28
• [Book] 理性と空想/真実と虚構初期王立協会と自然哲学の専門化/大衆化 (2010)
  • Author(s): 川田潤
  • Publisher: 『十七世紀英文学と科学』十七世紀英文学会編