2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Boardinghouse and Domesticity in Antebellum America
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22720110
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Surugadai University |
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Principal Investigator |
MASUDA Kumiko 駿河台大学, 現代文化学部, 准教授 (80337617)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 米文学 / 19世紀アメリカ合衆国 / ドメスティシティ |
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| Research Abstract |
This study explored how the ideology of domesticity could be conceptualized, and demonstrated that “boardinghouse” and its representations as a stark contrast for “home” had affected nineteenth-century America culturally as well as socially. Boardinghouse as cultural/social imagination in a wide range of literary and non-literary antebellum texts suggested that domesticity had affirmed its commitment to the nineteenth-century politics of culture.
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