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Porcelain, Melancholy, and Women in Eighteenth-Century England

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25370309
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionTeikyo University

Principal Investigator

ONO MASAKO  帝京大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80233229)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords18世紀 / 陶磁器 / 女性 / 女性蔑視 / 消費文化 / 英文学 / sexuality / 消費主義 / Alexander Pope / The Rape of the Lock / Ambrose Philips
Outline of Final Research Achievements

As the eighteenth-century English infatuation with porcelain comes to be translated as that of English women, the Biblical metaphor of “weaker vessel,” which served to objectify women as the frail sex is attuned to define women as the seeker of the vessel. As a result, the fragile china which is endeared by women comes to be identified as the women who endears it. The feminization of porcelain is what occurs when sexuality and commodification are conjoined in constructing the self-reflexive relationship between the desiring subject and the desired object in the male imagination of eighteenth-century England. Although women as the desiring subject might be figured as a statement of the increasing autonomy and independence in the consumer society, I argue that the agency of the gaze which brings the female subjectivity into being is male. Women as the desiring subject, as well as women as the desired object, is a construct created by the patriarchal fantasy of the age.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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