Viewing Emily Dickinson in an agricultural environment: With a focus on campaigns to attract Massachusetts Agricultural College to Amherst

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770103
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Kaname 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 助教 (80705244)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: エミリィ・ディキンスン / エドワード・ヒッチコック / エドワード・ディキンスン / ウィリアム・スミス・クラーク / アマースト / マサチューセッツ農科大学 / 農業 / アメリカ詩

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to place Emily Dickinson in the milieu of an agricultural environment in Amherst, Massachusetts, where Edward Hitchcock promoted scientific agriculture emphasizing farming on scientific principles. In addition, Amherst residents, led notably by William Smith Clark, conducted campaigns to attract Massachusetts Agricultural College to Amherst. Viewing her in such an agricultural environment, this research shows that Emily Dickinson, who was considered to be less associated with society, was profoundly involved in the public sphere of agriculture.

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人文学