2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853
| Project/Area Number |
15K16696
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Sophia University (2018)
The University of Tokyo (2015-2017) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | 英文学 / ロマン派 / 旅行記 / イギリス / 日本 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project investigated the influence of British literature and culture from the long eighteenth century on Japan, focusing on two aspects 1) the influence of Japan itself on British writers during the long eighteenth century 2) the reciprocal influence of British long eighteenth century literature, particularly Romanticism, on Japan, over the longer time frame of the second half of the eighteenth and long nineteenth centuries.
The research led to a number of publications, including a volume (co-edited with Alex Watson) titled "British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia", and a special issue of "Studies in Travel Writing" (2017, co-edited with Steve Clark). A number of publications and two book-length manuscripts are also forthcoming and will appear after the end of the project.
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| Free Research Field |
英文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This research examines how British and Japanese literature develop in dialogue with each other, and develops new models of cross-cultural "reception". This sheds new light on nineteenth-century history and advances our understanding of literature as a transnational, rather than national, movement.
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