2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Pacific Paratexts in Anglophone Writing, 1768-1914
| Project/Area Number |
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 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Pacific / Romanticism / Ninteenth Century / English literature |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research demonstrated that that the textual margins provided a central
site in which British and American writers of the long nineteenth century constructed the Pacific. Such writings’ combination of cohesive text and fragmentary notes responded to the tension between the comprehensible identity writers were attempting to construct for the region, and the area’s geographical reality as a complexity of interlinked archipelagos with distinct histories, cultures and languages. The research led to a number of peer-reviewed book chapters and journal artciles, as well as research presentaitons in Japan, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Taiwan and the USA. A further monograph placing this research in dialogue with perspectives in intermedia studies is planned.
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Research Products
(8 results)
