2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Domesticity and Its Intertextual Comprehension in Antebellum America
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25370301
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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 | Rissho University (2017)
Surugadai University (2013-2016) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 19世紀アメリカ小説 / 19世紀アメリカ文化と女性 / 家庭性 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study analyzes the texts in antebellum America to show how domesticity configured the dominant middle-class white woman’s culture, involved with gender, race, and class. Using novels written by Sarah Josepha Hale, one of the most important domestic ideologues in the 19th-century America, my project elucidates that domesticity could expand woman’s sphere and their activism without any critical comments or direct accusations. Domesticity, eventually, became a rationale for white women, who had no political right but could act as what Hale calls "citizeness."
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学
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