2014 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
環境美学のイデオロギー編成―ロマン主義時代の環境主義と庭園と職人・農民詩人たち
| Project/Area Number |
25370319
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| Research Institution | Nanzan University |
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Principal Investigator |
TEE Ve・Yin 南山大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (10387649)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
勝山 久里 京都造形芸術大学, 芸術学部, 教授 (00351362)
大石 和欣 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 准教授 (50348380)
大田垣 裕子 プール学院大学, 国際文化学部, 教授 (20290330)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | environmentalism / aesthetics / eighteenth-century / class / nature / landscape / walking / China |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We have been working as a group on eighteenth century environmental aesthetics. The extent to which environmental thought is dominated by the middle class was first argued by my work on the legacy of natural theology, 'The Moral Language of Nature', which has been accepted for publication by Romanticism. Kaz Oishi has advanced my initial thesis by looking at the representations of suburbia in the mid-eighteenth century by middle-class writers and poets. He has also reviewed the influential eighteenth century concept of the sublime in connection with the overall project's preoccupation with environmental aesthetics. Yuko Otagaki has examined how the aesthetic of modern pedestrian travel literature spread to Japan through the writers of the Meiji era. Finally, Kuri Katsuyama has been trying to connect environmental aesthetics to class in a more comprehensive way by looking at the representations of the Chinese garden in travel accounts by upper, middle and working-class writers in the late eighteenth century.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The work has gone smoothly because everyone has kept to the deadlines that we all agreed on. Despite everyone's busy schedules, we have also managed to meet several times to iron out various problems and difficulties.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I am currently trying to distinguish a working- or labouring class perspective on the land. I've read two papers on this topic and received a lot of feedback, which made me aware of the additional work that I need to do, particularly on the representations of common land and the common field system. Yuko will try to connect the Rousseauian heritage of pedestrian travel literature with eighteenth-century labouring class poetry, focussing in particular on topographical representations facilitated by the activity of walking. Kuri will read a paper in connection with her work on the Chinese Garden, and from the feedback work her research up into an article or book chapter for publication. Finally, Kaz will move on to look at representations of farmland and farming by Arthur Young and William Cobbett.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The cost of Rosemarie Dias and Simon J. White's visit to Nagoya in April 2014 was less than expected.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
I intend to use the money to buy books and to photocopy materials in England related to my research on the Leasowes and eighteenth-century landscape gardening in general.
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