2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Transnational Construction of American Poetry in the Late 19th Century
| Project/Area Number |
24720136
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Meiji Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
SADAHIRO Maki 明治学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80614974)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | American literature / transatlantic |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study re-examines the growing significance of poetry in US culture, in the age of novelistic realism that flowered after the Civil War. By exploring the literary criticism produced by a leading American critic, E.C. Stedman, and poetry written by Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, I have demonstrated that Stedman’s attempt at the canonization of American poetry enforced the growing cultural nationalism with a poetic vision of the coherent American past. The present study also reveals that the transatlantic literary exchange played a significant role in the process of institutionalizing American poetry, and thereby contributes to articulating the position of American Victorian poetry in the global context.
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| Free Research Field |
American literature
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