The Industrial Revolution and Victorian Literature

• Project/Area Number: 25370317
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Chukyo University
• Principal Investigator: TAKEI AKIKO 中京大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (00403634)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: イギリス文学 / イギリス小説 / イギリス歴史 / イギリス文化 / 産業革命 / 18世紀 / 19世紀 / ヴィクトリア朝 / 植民地 / ジェンダー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, focusing on the influence of the Industrial Revolution, the modernization and urbanization in Great Britain from the 1750s to the end of Victorian period are chronologically examined. Thereby starting from Jane Austen, the descriptions and representations of the Industrial Revolution are historically and culturally are studied from manifold viewpoints. In addition, to clarify the significance of the Industrial Revolution internationally, Soseki Natsume’s study in Britain and the extent of Japanese university students’ understanding of the age of the Industrial Revolution

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Beatrix Potter’s Room of Her Own: From Restriction in London to Independence at Hill Top Farm (2017)
  • Author(s): Ａｋｉｋｏ ＴＡＫＥＩ
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities Volume: -
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Beatrix Potter’s Room of Her Own: From Restriction in London to Independence at Hill Top Farm (2016)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of 14th Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities Volume: 1
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Difficulty in Teaching Nineteenth-Century British Literature to Japanese Undergraduate Students (2015)
  • Author(s): Ａｋｉｋｏ Ｔａｋｅｉ
  • Journal Title: Proceendings of 13th Annual Conference of Hawaii International Conference on Education Volume: 1 Pages: 1885-1890
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 産業革命とマンチェスター：フィクションとノンフィクションとの対比 (2014)
  • Author(s): 武井暁子
  • Journal Title: 国際教養学部論叢 Volume: 6 Pages: 1-13
• [Presentation] Every Body Must Now ‘Move in a Circle’: Obsession with Health and Amusement in Sanditon (2017)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Organizer: Sanditon: 200 Years
  • Place of Presentation: Cambridge, UK
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Success or Failure? Evaluating Dickens’s Management of Urania Cottage (2017)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Organizer: Interdisciplinary Dickens
  • Place of Presentation: Boston, MA, US
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Nicholas, David, and Pip go to Japan: Soseki Natsume’s Adaptations of Dickens (2016)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Organizer: Dickens Society
  • Place of Presentation: Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-11
• [Presentation] Beatrix Potter’s Room of Her Own: From Restriction in London to Independence at Hill Top Farm (2016)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Organizer: 14th Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu, HI, US
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-12
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Nicholas, David, and Pip Go to Japan: Soseki Natsume’s Adaptations of Dickens (2016)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Organizer: Adapting Dickens
  • Place of Presentation: Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Comedy and Tragedy in Drinking and Drinkers in Dickens's Novel (2015)
  • Author(s): Akiko TAKEI
  • Organizer: Dickens Society
  • Place of Presentation: Halifax, NS, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-10
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Comedy and Tragedy in Drinking and Drinkers in Dickens's Novels (2015)
  • Author(s): Akiko Takei
  • Organizer: 20th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Halifax, NS, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-08 – 2015-07-10
• [Presentation] Difficulty in Teaching Nineteenth-Century British Literature to Japanese Undergraduate Students (2015)
  • Author(s): Akiko Takei
  • Organizer: 13th Annual Conference of Hawaii International Conference on Education
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu, HI, US
  • Year and Date: 2015-01-06
• [Presentation] The Symbolical Landscapes of Prisons in Little Dorrit (2014)
  • Author(s): Akiko Takei
  • Organizer: 19th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Besier, France
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-09
• [Presentation] The Symbolical Landscapes of Prisons in Little Dorrit (2014)
  • Author(s): Akiko Takei
  • Organizer: Dickens Society
  • Place of Presentation: Bezier, France
• [Book] 土着と近代―グローカルの大洋を行く英語圏文学 (2015)
  • Author(s): 栂正行、木村茂雄、武井暁子、伊勢芳夫、北島義信、山本伸、杉浦清文、小杉世、小野俊太郎
  • Total Pages: 362
  • Publisher: 音羽書房鶴見書店
• [Book] ヴィクトリア朝の都市化と放浪者たち (2013)
  • Author(s): 武井暁子、要田圭司、田中孝信、小池滋、松本靖彦、閑田朋子、栂正行
  • Total Pages: 288
  • Publisher: 音羽書房鶴見書店
• [Book] Dickens in Japan: Bicentenary Essays (2013)
  • Author(s): Yasuki Kihara, Midori Niino, Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Yumiko Hirono, David Chandler, Toru Sasaki, Akiko Takei, Fumie Tamai, Nanako Konoshima, Takao Saijo, Tomoya Watanabe, Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Aya Yatsugi, Takanobu Tanaka
  • Total Pages: 229
  • Publisher: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho
• [Remarks] 中京大学教育研究活動データベースシステム
  • URL: http://kenkyu-db.chukyo-u.ac.jp/show/main.php?c=8121
• [Remarks] researchmap
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• [Remarks] 中京大学教育研究活動データベース
  • URL: http://kenkyu-db.chukyo-u.ac.jp/show/main.php?c=8121
• [Remarks] researchmap
  • URL: http://researchmap.jp/read0205574