The Eighteenth-Century English Literature of Trans-Atlantic (Post)Colonialism

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26370275
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Aoyama Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	KUNO Yoichi 青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (40242888)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	英文学 / 18世紀 / コロニアリズム / 英米文学 / アフリカ系作家
Outline of Final Research Achievements	As a result of investigating and studying according to this theme, there were results mainly on the following theme. The stories related to the abolition movement of slave trade and of the trans-Atlantic setting and the stories set in Orient, while responding to the colonialistic or imperialistic flow in modern Europe, at the same time in the history of literature, are closely associated with the formation of the novel which represents the modern.