2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Natural History Turned National History: A Study of Late-18thto Mid-19th-Century American Historiography
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19720064
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | Kochi Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAGUCHI Yoshinari Kochi Women's University, 文化学部, 准教授 (60364139)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 英米文学 / 文学一般 / アメリカ史 / 歴史記述 / 博物誌 |
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| Research Abstract |
What informed American historical writings from the early national era through the nineteenth century was, first of all, a panoramic desire to grasp a wide range of things at one view. Moreover, historians started to collect, preserve, and diffuse historical documents during this period, and those individual data were incorporated as evidences for their historical generalizations, though always tinged with some ambiguities concerning their nature of typicalness and uniqueness. The interest in the individual had much to do with a new awareness of universal mutability, too. To describe historical changes, historians then turned to geology and its image of layered temporality.
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