2014 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Romantic Connections: Locating European Romanticism in a Global Context
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26370272
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
S・H Clark 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (40335469)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 英文学 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The conference, Romantic Connections, was held at the University of Tokyo (June 13-15 2014), featuring over 100 papers from a wide range of international academics. As the first collaborative event between five major scholarly organisations in the area (Japanese Association for English Romanticism; North America Association of Romantic Studies; British Association for Romantic Studies; German Society of English Romanticism; Romantic Studies of Australasia), it will provide a precedent for future co-sponsored events. A special issue of Poetica (82) edited by Alex Watson and Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey has already appeared; it is hoped that two further volumes of essays will be produced, on "British Romanticism in an Asian Context" and "Prophesying War: the Rise of Anti-Chinese Sentiment in British Literature", 1790-1860; and also a special issue of the journal "Lit Matters" on pedagogy and career structure. Initial objectives have been successfully achieved, providing a basis for further tangible research outcomes and developing future projects in the target area of Japan and global interconnection, both in the 19th century and earlier periods.
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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
Initial objectives (including the 2014 "Romantic Connections" conference) have been successfully achieved, providing a basis for further tangible research outcomes and developing future projects in the target area of Japan and global interconnection, both in the 19th century and earlier periods.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The focus on global interaction with a particular focus on Japan and South-East Asia will be continued in a symposium I am organizing titled "Isabella Bird and the Poetics of Female Travel-Writing", at the University of Tokyo (June 26-27 2015), and in a projected conference on the Amherst embassy to China, to be organised by Dr Laurence Williams on its bicentenary in 2016-17. I will also visit Melbourne in July 2015 to deliver a paper titled "How Does Romanticism Translate?" at the RSAA conference.
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