2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cosmopolitanism in the Early Republic
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23520319
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | コスモポリタニズム / ニューヨーク / 建国期アメリカ文学 / 歴史小説 / 共和主義 / 民主主義 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study tried to observe the relationship between the cosmopolitan American character and America's development as a modern nation. Cosmopolitanism was considered to be one of the important virtues in the early Republic. As J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur imaged the American as "a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes," the sense of living in a multiethnic nation was alive in the American consciousness in the Revolutionary period. But the examination of various expressions of cosmopolitanism in the literature of the founding era has revealed that cosmopolitanism, on the one hand, ceased to be a characteristic mindset of the American, giving place to the emerging dominance of WASP, but, on the other, it survived as a regional character of New York. The result is a view that America's national development was bounded with ideological conflicts between cosmopolitan and WASP idealism, and also between provincialism and nationalism.
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Research Products
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