2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A New Historical Study on the Representations of the City in Later Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature
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13410131
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
HONES S The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, assistant Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (70206035)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANJI Ai The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (90133686)
TANJI Yoko Yokohama National University, Faculty of Human Sciences, assistant Professor, 教育人間科学部, 助教授 (90188459)
YAGUCHI Yujin The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, assistant Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (00271700)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | city / country side / literary geography / urban degeneration / naturalism / Chicago |
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| Research Abstract |
(1)This project investigated the representation of cities in the United States and Britain. It analyzed a variety of new primary resources through an interdisciplinary approach that encompassed both historical and literary perspectives, with particular emphasis on a new historicist approach.
(2)Grounding her work in the latest approaches to cultural and literary geography and focusing on American literary texts from 1880 to 1925, Sheila Hones discussed and analyzed the representation of space in urban settings and the critical role that spatial concepts such as transportation, movement, and communication have played in the interpretation of texts.
(3)Ai Tanji focused primarily on Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. He explored how Woolf's writing was conditioned both by modernism and by the urban experience. Specifically, his work focused on how Woolf's texts articulate the complex interrelationships between contemporary urban problems and theories of degeneration, theories of degeneration and mental illness, and her own mental illness and rest cure in the countryside, which was the treatment recommended to her.
(4)Yoko Tanji focused on Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, investigating the naturalistic image of the "urban" by contextualizing it within the history of American cities since the Puritan period.
(5)Yujin Yaguchi focused on Chicago, a city that experienced phenomenal growth in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In particular, his research focused on how crimes--especially heinous crimes like murders-were historically represented in novels and newspaper articles published in the city and how those reports delineated the problem of and potential for writing about cities.
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