2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An Interdisciplinary Study of Transformations of Public/Intimate/Private Spheres Wrought by Sexual Discourses of Female Writers in the Long Eighteenth Century

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21520267
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Science
Principal Investigator	KAJI Riwako 山形県立保健医療大学, 保健医療学部, 准教授 (60299790)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	長い十八世紀 / 女性作家 / 公共圏 / 親密圏 / 性的言説 / 知的ネットワーク
Research Abstract	This study clarified transformations of public/intimate/private spheres in long Eighteenth century England by illuminating how discourses concerning female sexuality were created and circulated. For that, these complicated relationships have been considered and analyzed on the basis of recent studies of female writers or gender ; relations between women's discourses which included sexual expressions and those associated with sexual implications ; women writers/readers and intellectual networks and markets ; women and constitution of knowledge or its construction process.