Desire for Re-Creating the World -- Politics of Print and Collecting Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520304
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tohoku Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: YAGAWA Osamu 東北学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (20210213)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ARAKI Masazumi 白百合女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (80015863) ; KAWATA Jun 福島大学, 人間発達文化学類, 教授 (70323186) ; KAJI Riwako 山形保健医療大学, 看護学科, 准教授 (60299790) ; YOSHIDA Naoki 成城大学, 文学部, 教授 (90261396) ; YOSHIHARA Yukari 筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (70249621)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 蒐集文化 / 出版文化 / 政治 / 経済 / 植民地主義 / 見世物 / アンソロジー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined print culture and culture of collecting in relation to Natural History, Politics, International Relations, and (Post-) Colonialism in the ‘Long Eighteenth Century’. As a result, it was made clear that printing and collecting activities were closely interrelated with each other in that period. Concretely: (1) culture of collecting had much influence on the modern form of anthologies, catalogues and periodicals (2) both transformation of the old ‘cabinet of curiosity’ into the public museum collections and the remaining activities of individual collecting were mainly based on the print culture. We also made it clear that these cultural developments were related to the contemporary political and economical contexts in a global way.

Free Research Field

英文学