The Formation of a Tourism Perspective in the Discourse of Modern French Publishing Culture

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K02599
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Kyoritsu Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Taguchi Aki 共立女子大学, 文芸学部, 教授 (90600502)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 観光 / フランス文学 / 旅行記 / メディア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study concerns nineteenth-century French travel writing. The purpose of this study is to examine the transition from the 19th-century pleasure trip to modern tourism, and publishing media accompanying this transition. I am also concerned with travel writings and their points of view. As the journey itself contains some notion of tourism, I have traied to extract from travel writing a definition of tourism and to define the tourism in a historical context, especially during the period during nineteenth century when travel writings became more widespread.
The study focuses on travel writers who innovated travel writings by including descriptions of several pertinent aspects of their journeys. I also consider these writings from a touristic perspective.

Free Research Field

フランス文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、近代のフランス出版文化の専門研究である。観光が生まれた状況で、どのような言説が流通していたのかを、テキストから読み解くことを目的としたが、現代における観光の諸問題の根源を明らかにしたことで、現代における文学と観光の専門分野をまたぐ基礎研究となった。