Empirical Research on the Process of Formation and Canonization ofMajor English Romantic Texts

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520270
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Rikkyo University
Principal Investigator	FUJIMAKI Akira 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (30238604)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords	英文学 / ロマン主義文学 / 作品生成過程 / 文学の正典化 / 新歴史主義批評 / 新歴史主義批判
Research Abstract	By detailed research on the process of formation and canonization of English Romantic texts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey, it has been reassured that we should find another balanced critical method between two extreme literary criticisms, New Criticism, which treats literary texts just as artworks rejecting every other consideration, on one hand and New Historicism, which reduces everything inliterature to politics despising aesthetics, on the other.