Thomas Traherne and Early Modern Manuscript Culture

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23720142
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator	KOSHI Tomohiko 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (70453602)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	17世紀英文学 / トマス・トラハーン / 国際情報交流
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research project is to re-examine the literature of Thomas Traherne, the seventeenth-century English devotional writer, within the historical context of early modern manuscript culture. Attending to the fact that acts of “collaborative/editorial intervention” by other people than the author can be recognized in the making of Traherne’s texts, I have analyzed the various aspects relating to the production and consumption of literary texts in the scribal community as a socio-literary institution; and I have suggested that in conducting that sort of analysis, one should look at manuscript texts as material artifacts with their own traits and mode of being.