2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone Writing, 1768-1914
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19K00446
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
ワトソン アレックス 明治大学, 文学部, 専任准教授 (40609062)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Paratext / Pacific / Travel writing / Romanticism / English Literature |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I completed first drafts of chapters on Byron and Mitford, Stevenson and Coleridge for a monograph entitled "Pacific Marginality" and an essay on Stevenson for the collection entitled Pacific Gateways (Laurence Williams ed. Palgrave). I gave papers at conferences in Australia, Japan and the UK.
I published (with Dr Laurence Williams, Sophia University) a volume of essays titled "British Romanticism in Asia". I submitted an article on Kurosawa and Shakespeare to the journal Critical Survey. I published reviews of books by Timothy Michaels, Judith Pascoe and Yu Miri in The Byron Journal and Kyoto Journal. I also acted as a reviewer for European Romantic Review and series editor for Palgrave "Asia-Pacific and Literature in English".
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
My personal research is proceeding largely as planned. However I had planned to hold an international conference related to this project entitled Pacific Paratexts in November 2020. I had secured Professor Rod Edmond and Ann Johnston as plenaries, sent out an international call for papers and made a conference website. However, due to the coronoa virus situation I have decided to delay the conference to November 2021. This may mean I need to reserve funds originally allocated for this year to next year.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Due to the corona virus situation, my main focus will be on the monograpy Pacific Marginality. Kakenhi will be used for 1) the purchase of books and office supplies 2) planning for the conference next year.
I plan to give an invited talk (via zoom) on Mary Russell Mitford and Lord Byron at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen (April 2020). I am also scheduled to give a paper (again via zoom) on Georg Forster’s notes for A Voyage Round the World (1775) at “The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Textual and Visual Arts, 1660-1832” at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in September 2020. I will publish a book chapter on Roland Barthes for Fabien Arribert-Narce and Kamilla Pawlikowska’s collection Essays on ‘The Pleasure of the Text’.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The amount has incurred due to the spread of COVID-19 and change of my research plans thereby. In particular, I had to postpone an international conference I was organizing with Kakenhi, "Pacific Paratexts", to Fall 2021 and switched my trip to Germany for the invited talk "The Pacific in the Margins: Mary Russell Mitford’s notes for Christina, the maid of the South Seas (1811) and Lord Byron’s notes for The Island, or Christian and His Comrades (1823)" to a Zoom lecture (to be held in April 2020). I am planning to spend the amount in FY2021 mainly for the Pacific conference.
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