"Picturesque" in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370267
• 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 University
• Principal Investigator: Ishihata Naoki 東北大学, 国際文化研究科, 教授 (30125497)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ピクチャレスク / ウルストンクラフト / 女性解放 / 進歩史観 / ロマン主義時代

Outline of Final Research Achievements

"Picturesque" frequently seen in Mary Wollstonecraft's critiques, travel journals, reviews, and letters is the buzzword in her days which symbolizes the vogue to seek after the ideal landscape for painting. Following the context which features this term, we have scrutinized its each implication in order to elucidate the role Wollstonecraft played in the age of the discovery and reception of natural beauty, consequently to explicate how it affected the development of her view of history as progress and of emancipation of women.

Free Research Field

英文学