2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Analysis of the Representation of Illegitimacy in the Nineteenth-century British Novel
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23520321
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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 | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 売春婦 / 私生児 / 堕ちた女 / 違法 / 家庭 / 19世紀イギリス小説 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project focuses on the "illegitimacy", that is, the fallen woman, especially prostitutes, and illegitimate children, whose very existences are problematics in that they are necessities according to the sexual double standard in the Victorian era while running afoul of the middle-class domestic ideal of respectability. Illegitimate and contradictory, they are hardly foregrounded in the Victorian major novels, but undoubtedly serve as pedestal plots under the surface of the texts: prostitutes and illegitimate children are the other side of the coin of the Angel in the House, one of the strongest Victorian ideal and ideologies. Investigating the types of power and how they are exercised when the presence/absence of the "illegitimacy" is represented in the texts, I explored the hidden sides of the Victorian major novels, thereby opening up the possibilities of the original viewpoints of analysis and readings.
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Research Products
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