Natural History and British Romantic Culture

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370287
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Suzuki Masashi 宮城学院女子大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (50091195)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 博物学 / 分類学 / 生命科学的言説 / 顕微鏡的表象 / 植物学 / 昆虫学 / 蒐集 / システム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A large variety of discourses on natural history including biology and physiology were produced in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In the present research an attempt was made to search for natural history discourses which are in particular incorporated into literature, philosophy, politics, religion and visual culture during the British Romantic period. And a closer analysis of their primary sources suggested that a new perspective more fundamental and integrated should be given to represent and mediate apparently fragmented culture of the British Romantic period.

Free Research Field

イギリス文学・文化