2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study of Sentimentalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520223
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	OKOCHI Sho 東北大学, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (60194114)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	感傷主義 / 共感 / イデオロギー / 道徳哲学 / ゴシック小説 / 崇高
Research Abstract	This study attempted to analyze and elucidate sentimentalism in eighteenth-century Britain. Firstly, the focus is placed on the thematic and rhetorical problem inherent in the thematics of emotion or feeling in eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, and, secondly, the literary discourse of sentimental and gothic novels is analyzed. This procedure made it possible to consider how and in what process literature is got involved in the philosophical problem of sentimentalism, trying to solve that problem through literary and symbolic representation. I also paid attention to the theoretical problem of the relation between philosophy and literature in eighteenth-century Britain.

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