2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Epistemological Frameworks and Antebellum American Prose
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24520270
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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 | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 知識の枠組み / 南北戦争前アメリカ散文 / ライフ / 知識史 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Our project “Epistemological Frameworks and Antebellum American Prose” (2012-16) aims to reconstruct multilayered epistemological frameworks in literary texts written in/about the US during the years of 1830-60. The outcome in three phrases includes: (1) thanatopsis change inherent in cemetery and marker designs, thanatopsis change resulting from the invention of chemical anesthesia, the “green spectacles” in context of the Enlightenment ideas, (2) climate change caused by the Industrial Revolution, (3) three topics of the early 19th-century forensics: sexuality, insanity from drinking, toxicology.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学、知識史、知識の枠組み
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