Correlation of D. H. Lawrence and Popular Fiction During the Time of the First World War and Interwar Period

• Project/Area Number: 24520332
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Kumamoto Health Science University
• Principal Investigator: IWAI Gaku 熊本保健科学大学, 保健科学部, 准教授 (70369859)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: D. H. ロレンス / ポピュラー・フィクション / 第一次大戦 / バータ・ラック / 炭坑文学 / 炭鉱文学 / 英文学 / プロレタリア作家 / 炭鉱夫 / イギリス / D. H. Lawrence / Berta Ruck / 労働者階級作家 / 第一次世界大戦 / 第一次大戦期のイデオロギー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research intends to disclose the correlation between canonical Modernist texts by such authors as D. H. Lawrence, and popular fiction which was widely read at the time of publication but has long been forgotten. In order to do so, this study attempts to connect two streams of researches: 1) the analysis of the modernist texts in terms of the wartime ideology; 2) re-reading of non-canonical works like popular romance in terms of the wartime ideology, nationalism, the ideology of the empire.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] ゾラからロレンス、そしてその向こうへ――文学に描かれた炭鉱の系譜 (2014)
  • Author(s): 岩井学
  • Journal Title: 『D. H. ロレンス研究』 Volume: 24 Pages: 44-50
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Which Class Does Lawrence Belong to?: Lawrence’s Place among Working- and Middle-Class Writers of Mining Novels (2014)
  • Author(s): Gaku IWAI
  • Organizer: The 13th International D. H. Lawrence Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Gargnano, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-24
• [Presentation] Did Lawrence Like or Hate the Germans?: Anti-German Ideology in Movements in European History (2013)
  • Author(s): IWAI Gaku
  • Organizer: The 2013 International D. H. Lawrence Conference
  • Place of Presentation: University of Paris, Nanterre
• [Presentation] ゾラからロレンス、そしてその向こうへ――文学に描かれた炭鉱の系譜 (2013)
  • Author(s): 岩井学
  • Organizer: 第44回日本ロレンス協会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北九州市立大学
• [Presentation] Wartime Ideology in "The Thimble"
  • Author(s): Gaku IWAI
  • Organizer: The 2012 International D. H. Lawrence Conference
  • Place of Presentation: University of Artois
• [Book] 『ロレンスの短編を読む』(仮題) (2015)
  • Author(s): 浅井雅志、岩井学ほか
  • Publisher: 松柏社