Epistemological Frameworks and Antebellum American Prose

• Project/Area Number: 24520270
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: WASHIZU Hiroko 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (30149372)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
• Keywords: 知識の枠組み / 南北戦争前アメリカ散文 / ライフ / 知識史 / 法医学 / ロー（Law） / ロー（law） / 飲酒の歴史 / 禁酒運動 / 飲料水 / 毒薬（学） / ナサニエル・ホーソン / 庭園 / 化学麻酔 / メスメリズム / エドガー・アラン・ポウ / 麻酔の歴史 / 生／死

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our project “Epistemological Frameworks and Antebellum American Prose” (2012-16) aims to reconstruct multilayered epistemological frameworks in literary texts written in/about the US during the years of 1830-60. The outcome in three phrases includes: (1) thanatopsis change inherent in cemetery and marker designs, thanatopsis change resulting from the invention of chemical anesthesia, the “green spectacles” in context of the Enlightenment ideas, (2) climate change caused by the Industrial Revolution, (3) three topics of the early 19th-century forensics: sexuality, insanity from drinking, toxicology.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Virtuous/Poisonous Potency: Toxicology in "Rappaccini's Daughter" (2017)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Journal Title: アメリカ文学評論 Volume: 25 Pages: 205-11
• [Journal Article] アンドリュー・ジャクソン・ダウニングに関する覚書 (2017)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Journal Title: ガーデン研究会ジャーナル Volume: ３ Pages: 11-15
• [Journal Article] 監獄と墓場の現象学：『緋文字』の〈生〉と〈法〉 (2017)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Journal Title: 科学研究費研究成果報告書 Volume: 1 Pages: 1-11
• [Journal Article] 酒毒と狂気：エドガー・アラン・ポウ「黒猫」の法医学 (2017)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Journal Title: 科学研究費研究成果報告書 Volume: 1 Pages: 63-78
• [Journal Article] アメリカの庭園／庭園のアメリカ (2015)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Journal Title: イギリス・ガーデン研究会雑誌 Volume: 2 Pages: 39-45
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Dead or Alive: (Pre-)Anesthetic Trance in Edgar Allan Poe's Stories (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Journal Title: アメリカ文学評論 Volume: 24
  • NAID: 40020240985
• [Journal Article] 〈巻頭エッセー〉今なぜ《文学》なのか (2012)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Journal Title: アメリカ文学評論 Volume: 23 Pages: 1-4
• [Journal Article] 愛ほどの苦しみ (2012)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Journal Title: アメリカ文学評論 Volume: 23 Pages: 60-63
• [Presentation] Death in the Garden: Landscape Gardening in Poe (2017)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: British Association of the Romantic Studies
  • Place of Presentation: University of York
  • Year and Date: 2017-07-27
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] In Matters of Spirits: Forensics of Intemperance in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” (2016)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: International Association of University Professors of English
  • Place of Presentation: University of London
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-25
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Matters of Spirit (2016)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: International Association of the University Professors of English
  • Place of Presentation: University of London （ロンドン、連合王国）
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-25
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] アメリカの庭園／庭園のアメリカ (2015)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Organizer: イギリス・ガーデン研究会
  • Place of Presentation: イーグレ姫路（兵庫県姫路市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-18
• [Presentation] Physical Geography of Climate (2015)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Organizer: Climate Change Conference
  • Place of Presentation: University of Prince Edward Island （カナダ、プリンスエドワード島）
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-29
• [Presentation] 「ラパッチーニの娘」の毒薬学 (2014)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Organizer: 筑波大学アメリカ文学会
  • Place of Presentation: 筑波大学(茨城県、つくば市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-19
• [Presentation] Virtuous/Poisonous Potency (2014)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Organizer: International Conference on Romanticism
  • Place of Presentation: University of St. Thomas （アメリカ、ミネアポリス)
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-27
• [Presentation] Taming Beasts (2014)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Organizer: igala8
  • Place of Presentation: Simon Fraser University (カナダ、バンクーバー)
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-07
• [Presentation] Reading Dead Bodies: Forensic Medicine and Detective Stories
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: International Association of University Professors of English
  • Place of Presentation: 清華大学（中国）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “Taming Beasts: Metaphorical Presentation of Natural Disasters in the Edo Japan”
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: IGALA 8
  • Place of Presentation: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (カナダ))
• [Presentation] Dead or Alive: (Pre-)Anesthetic Trance in Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: Conversazioni in Italia
  • Place of Presentation: フィレンツェ（イタリア）
• [Presentation] Dead or Alive: Invention of Anesthesia and Its Cultural Impact on Life
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: 筑波大学アメリカ文学会
  • Place of Presentation: 筑波大学東京キャンパス文京校舎
• [Presentation] How to Tame a Beast
  • Author(s): Hiroko Washizu
  • Organizer: Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
  • Place of Presentation: ミルウォーキー（米国）
• [Book] 文色と理方 (2017)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Total Pages: 273
  • Publisher: 南雲堂
• [Book] 文色と理方――〈知識の枠組み〉と南北戦争前アメリカ散文 (2016)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Publisher: 南雲堂
• [Book] 文色と理方(仮題) (2015)
  • Author(s): 鷲津浩子
  • Total Pages: 200
  • Publisher: 南雲堂