2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
On the Relation between Health Reform Movement and Literary Works in 19th- Century America
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19K00400
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Jissen Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | キリスト教 / 健康改革 / 女性解放運動 / 服装改革 / 菜食主義 / 水治療 / フリー・ラヴ / スピリチュアリズム |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this research project, it was elucidated that the Health Reform advocated in the field of medicine in 19th century America was related to the Christian revivalism and the dream of realizing a great republican nation and that this connection could be read in contemporary literary works.
Elements of the Health Reform such as dress reform, vegetarianism, and hydrotherapy were found to be influenced by the “Second Great Awakening,” and to be closely related to the burgeoning women's liberation movement at that time. I found the interrelation particularly in the writings of Mary Gove Nichols, as well as in literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an antebellum writer, and Henry James, a postbellum one.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
19世紀前半から半ばにおけるアメリカ合衆国において、偉大な共和制国家建設という社会的願望とキリスト教信仰復興運動という宗教的事象との関係を時代背景として、健康改革運動という医学における改革思想と、女性解放思想という社会改革思想との関連性を明らかにできたことが本研究課題の成果である。そして社会・宗教・医学・文学の相互関連性を指摘したことに意義がある。
また、日本ではもちろん、英語圏においてもほとんど研究が進んでいない水治療実践者で作家でもあったMary Gove Nicholsの思想や作品の分析を進めることができたことも学術的意義を持つ成果の1つと見なすことができる。
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