2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Germanism and the Development of the 19th Century British Novels
| Project/Area Number |
25770105
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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 | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | イギリス文学・文化 / イギリス小説・演劇 / 18世紀末 / 19世紀前・中期 / ゲルマニズム / ドイツ文学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study elucidates how a noticeable trend to reassess German culture in the mid-19th century Britain has influenced the development of the British novels.
This research consists of two stages. The first examines how Thackeray adopted German things and thought into his major novels and played an important role as an usher to German culture for his contrymen. By thickly describing German materials, he not only contributed to the trend but also broadened novels' panorama into Anglo-German perspective.
The second reveals several causes of the underestimation for German literature in the early 19th century Britain, which had created the trend of the reassessment. Although the theatrical scene in the late Georgian period favorably received Kotzebue's plays adapted for the British stage, the local intellectuals bitterly criticized them and the phenomenon. Such criticism, however, was attributed to their limited understandings of the adaptaion process as well as to the plays' problems.
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| Free Research Field |
イギリス文学・文化
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