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The Literary Representation of Women's Labour and the Formation of Their Network in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02441
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionIbaraki University

Principal Investigator

Ichikawa Chieko  茨城大学, 人文社会科学部, 教授 (10372822)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords女性労働 / ネットワーク / 19世紀 / マーガレット・ハークネス / 貧困 / エリザベス・ギャスケル / ストライキ / オーストラリア / 女性労働組合 / エセル・カーニー・ホールズワース / ランカシャー / マンチェスター / チャリティ / イギリス文学 / 世紀末 / ネットワーク形成
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project investigates working-class women in fiction and non-fiction by primarily examining Margaret Harkness’s novels and reportage. Although Harkness’s objective approaches to women’s struggle with predicaments attempt to redress fundamental problems of agency and social structure, her views and narrative style are still within the middle-class framework. Nonetheless, she reveals the facts about the physical and financial exploitation of female bodies as commodities in an urban consumption culture in which working-class women experience vulnerability, and poverty along with conflicts of obtaining their political voice. In her radicalism and realism, Harkness creates labouring women, though they are marginalised figures, who challenge the myth of the sensual and erotic working-class woman. They also envision their independence from the patronisation of the middle-class philanthropic campaigners and reject their ideology, in order to seek a new way to their solidarity.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

従来の19世紀イギリス文学研究では、その関心が中流階級女性に集中しがちであったが、本研究は下層中流階級から労働者階級女性の労働に焦点をあて、階級を超えた女性同士の関係の葛藤から脱し、労働者階級女性たちが自らの政治的声を模索する萌芽的瞬間を見出そうとした。また、本研究では正典と位置付けられる19世紀の女性作家(ブロンテ姉妹、ギャスケルなど)の作品と、近年新たに発掘され、再評価されつつある女性作家(ハークネス、エセル・カーニー・ホールズワースなど)の著作から女性著述の系譜の新たな様相を追究することも試みた。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] “A Body Politic of Women’s Own: Josephine Butler, Social Purity, and National Identity”2016

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Journal Title

      Victorian Review

      Volume: 41.1 Pages: 107-123

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] ‘The “Frankenstein-monster” Trope: Crowds and Women in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Harkness’2019

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      The Literary London Society Annual Conference, ‘Neighbours of Ours’: Cities, Communities, Networks
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] ‘Women’s Writing on Sex: Rhetoric and Gender in the Social Purity Movement’2019

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      1869 Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Anger and Hunger: A Body Politic of Working-Class Women in Margaret Harkness’s Slum Fiction”2019

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Organizer
      The Body and the Page in Victorian Culture: An International Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Women’s Writing on Sex: Rhetoric and Gender in the Social Purity Movement”2019

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Organizer
      The 1869 Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ラウンドテーブル「女性のプラットフォームを求めて――女性参政権獲得の歩み」2018

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      日本ヴィクトリア朝文化研究学会第18回全国大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「ヴィクトリア朝のレディ・トラベラーが触れた日本」2018

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      土曜アカデミー・岡倉天心セミナー vol. 5「世界の “OKAKURA” 誕生 岡倉の最初の英語著作と日本趣味」
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 「女性と群集」2018

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      第9回人文社会科学部市民共創教育研究センター主催・人と地域研究会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Anger and Hunger: A Body Politic of Working-Class Women in Margaret Harkness’s Slum Fiction”2018

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Organizer
      The Body and the Page in Victorian Culture: An International Conference (University of Victoria, Canada)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「傍観者から参加者へ――女性・暴動・ストライキ」シンポジウム「群衆との対峙―ヴィクトリア朝の小説における都市の風景」2017

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      日本ギャスケル協会第29回大会(熊本大学)
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “Socialist Purity Campaigners and Women’s Writing on Sex”2016

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Organizer
      Radical Women 1880-1914
    • Place of Presentation
      Working Class Movement Library/the University of Salford
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-17
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] "Governing Desires versus Consuming Pleasures: Jane Ellice Hopkins, James Hinton and Conflicts in Sexual Politics"2016

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Organizer
      BAVS: Consuming (the) Victorians
    • Place of Presentation
      Cardiff University
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-01
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Dickens’s Impact on Japanese Culture”2016

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa, Chieko
    • Organizer
      Global Dickens:
    • Place of Presentation
      Cardiff University
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-30
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 「干渉と感傷の力学―ヴィクトリア朝小説におけるチャリティと労働」2016

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会シンポジウム「近代イギリスのチャリティを読む」
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 「エセル・カーニー・ホールズワース 『嵐が丘』、『フォー・ゲイツのヘレン』、シネマ――増幅される愛と憎しみの物語」、岩上はる子・惣谷美智子編『めぐり会うテクストたち――ブロンテ文学の遺産と影響』第15章2019

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子
    • Total Pages
      432
    • Publisher
      春風社
    • ISBN
      9784861106293
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 『セクシュアリティとヴィクトリア朝文化』2016

    • Author(s)
      市川千恵子、田中孝信、要田圭治、原田範行、他
    • Total Pages
      390
    • Publisher
      彩流社
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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