2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Understanding American Modernity on the Basis of Republican Paradigm
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20520215
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
WAKABAYASHI Makiko Aoyama Gakuin University, 文学部, 准教授 (50323738)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | アメリカ文学 / 女性文学 / 求婚小説 / 誘惑小説 / 感傷小説 / 家庭小説 / 共和制アメリカ / アメリカ近代化 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study tried to rewrite American modern history in terms of women's identity. In the eighteenth century, the idea of sexual difference between women and men was radically altered, that is to say, sex ceased to be regarded as a matter of degree and came to be recognized as a difference in kind. I then tried to observe in women's courtship novels how this reconceptualization of sexual difference affected women's sense of themselves. The result is a history of women's desire for unmediated selfhood that resists to be silenced under the ideological pressure of domesticity.
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