2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Reassessing Historicism in Romantic Studies
| Project/Area Number |
20K00439
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
ディヴィッド ヴァリンズ 広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(文), 教授 (70403623)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Romanticism / Historicism / Materialism |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
My research has analyzed the ways in which historicist criticism misrepresents Romantic idealism, firstly in Peter Otto’s interpretation of Wordsworth’s idea of imagination as implying that the mind is a ‘machine’ with the potential to transform society - a view which aligns Romantic ideas of imagination with concepts of ‘virtual reality’, secondly in Nicholas Roe’s argument that Wordsworth’s description of the effects of Tintern Abbey is echoed in Keats’s description of the path taken by a bullet through the body of a patient he was treating, and thirdly, in Andrea Henderson’s interpretation of poststructuralist anti-essentialism as implying that consciousness is an effect of one’s environment - a view which fails to recognize the affinities between Romanticism and poststructuralism.
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