American Literature and Enlightenment

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580055
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University
• Principal Investigator: Ogura Izumi 大東文化大学, 法学部, 教授 (00185563)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAKABE Mari 大東文化大学, 法学部, 准教授 (30513668) ; NAKANE Kazutaka 大東文化大学, 法学部, 講師 (10600645)
• Research Collaborator: Hall David D. Harvard University, Bartlett Research Professor on New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School, 教授 ; Ziff Larzer Johns Hopkins University, Caroline Donovan Professor of English, Emeritus, and Research Professor of Department of English, 教授 ; Brown Ruthie Connecticut Gravestone Network (CGN), Executive Director ; Holcombe Anne Ancient Burying Ground Association, Inc., Member ; Cramer Jeffrey S. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, Curator of Collections ; Yoshida Tatsuro Director of Research and Development, New Health Sciences, Inc.
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: コネチカット地図 / Abel Buell / ベンジャミン・フランクリン / トマス・ジェファソン / 教育スタンダード / オーストリア・リベラル / 北西部条令 / 急進的啓蒙主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project "American Literature and Enlightenment" explored how the idea of an indivisual self was established in the 18th century of British North America and examined its legacy in the contemporary America and Europe.
Izumi Ogura detailed the colonial charters and its relationship with the claims to the territories in the West at the time of American Revolution. Abel Buell's map of the United States was then the product of scientific research and at the same time, shows how the new nation and new people looked at new American self. Mari Sakabe analyzed the inheritance of American Enlightenment and the present argument of the national educational standard. Kazutaka Natane centered on Austrian Liberal and explained the liberty and constitutionalism in the eastern and central Europe in the early 20th century.

Free Research Field

アメリカ文学