The Public Nature of English Literature in Relation to the Formation of the British Nationhood

• Project/Area Number: 23520311
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Oita University
• Principal Investigator: SONOI Chine 大分大学, 工学部, 准教授 (70295286)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SONOI Eishu 九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 名誉教授 (00069709)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: 英文学 / 西洋思想史 / 宗教 / 西洋哲学 / ヨーロッパ歴史 / 哲学 / 西洋史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study aims to elucidate the interrelationship between the subject matter of literature in Britain and the formation of nationhoodof the British people from the 18th to the 20th century.
It is inaccurate to define the nature of the change in the British nationhood which occurred in the process of the modernisation in society and culture since the seventeenth century merely as historical necessity because implicit themes of cultural sciences, particularly those of humanities and literature played critical roles for British people in making them aware of their national sensibility of the British nation. This nature of literary output might be called as the“public nature”of English Literature.I intend to clarify how the public nature of literature worked to give positive influences on the people's perception in which their sense of nation was established from the 18th and the 20th century British society that involved a diverse development in social system.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Romantic Britons:National Identity in the Writings of Coleridge and Southey (2013)
  • Author(s): Chine Sonoi
  • Journal Title: The Coleridge Bulletin Volume: 41 Pages: 75-84
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] "Southey's Radicalism and the Abolitionist Movement " (2011)
  • Author(s): Chine Sonoi
  • Journal Title: The Wordsworth Circle Volume: 42.1 Pages: 22-26
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] サウジー後期詩作はロマンティシズムの退嬰を示唆するものか (2014)
  • Author(s): 園井 千音
  • Organizer: イギリス・ロマン派文学冬季研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 福岡大学(福岡市城南区）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-13
• [Presentation] The Rise of the British National Identity in the Writings of Southey from 1800s to 1820s (2013)
  • Author(s): Chine Sonoi
  • Organizer: Robert Southey and Romanticism: The Lake School in Context
  • Place of Presentation: Keswick, U.K.
• [Presentation] Romantic Britons: National Identity in the Writings of Coleridge and Southey (2012)
  • Author(s): Chine Sonoi
  • Organizer: A multidisciplinary conference on Emblems of Nationhood:Britishness 1707-1901
  • Place of Presentation: University of St. Andrews, U.K.
• [Book] ロマン主義の光と影 (2011)
  • Author(s): 園井千音（共著）
  • Publisher: 音羽書房鶴見書店
• [Book] British Romanticism, Slavery and the Slave Trade (2011)
  • Author(s): Chine Sonoi（単著）
  • Total Pages: 221
  • Publisher: Kyushu University Press