2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Changing Ideas of Furnishings and Upholstery as Represented inRealist Novels in the Long Nineteenth Century.
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22520283
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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 | Seinan Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAKE Atsuko 西南学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (10368970)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 英文学 / 文化史 / 19 世紀 |
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| Research Abstract |
The nineteenth-century realist novels often contain the representations of furnishings and upholstery, especially in connection with the identity issue of characters and their desire to climb the social ladder. Those novels include works by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, George Gissing, and Henry James. These representations tend to be interpreted as a part of literary craftsmanship of each novelist, if examined independently of other novelists’ works and his contemporary cultural context of interior decoration. However, studying them together in the context of design reform movement throughout the nineteenth century reveals that those representations elaborately reflect the nineteenth-century socio-cultural connotations of furnishings and upholstery.
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