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2018 年度 実施状況報告書

Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868 - 1922

研究課題

研究課題/領域番号 18K12316
研究機関上智大学

研究代表者

WILLIAMS Laurence  上智大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (50750486)

研究期間 (年度) 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
キーワードtravel writing / literature / Tokyo / Japan
研究実績の概要

I am currently compiling a bibliography of early travel accounts of Tokyo, using digital resources at Sophia University Library, the University of Tokyo, and elsewhere. I expect to make research trips in 2019 to university libraries overseas in order to complete this research. I am also currently engaged in editing a volume, provisionally titled "Pacific Gateways: English Literature and the Pacific Ocean, 1760-1914": most of the chapter drafts have now been received, and I expect to complete the manuscript later in 2019 or early 2020. This volume will be focused on British travels to Pacific ports during the nineteenth century, particularly Tokyo: I will contribute the foreword and an essay on British impressions of Tokyo. This is expected to be part of the Palgrave "Asia-Pacific and Literature in English" series.

Also this year I published (with Dr Alex Watson, Meiji University) a volume of essays titled "British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia". I also submitted an article to a Handbook of British Travel Writing, to be published by de Gruyter (edited by Barbara Schaff).

Kakenhi was used for the purchase of books related to travel writing and the Pacific, a computer, and other office supplies, and for an international workshop in October 2018 featuring Dr Noah Heringman (University of Missouri). I also organized (with Professor Kimiyo Ogawa, Sophia University) a seminar at Sophia on the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which also explored the afterlife of the text in Asia.

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理由

Research is proceeding largely as planned: some money was carried over into this financial year due to the decision to change the date of an overseas research trip. I am planning a symposium at Sophia University on Asia-Pacific travel writing, to take place in 2020.

今後の研究の推進方策

Kakenhi will be used for 1) the purchase of books and office supplies 2) research trips abroad in order to complete my bibliography of travel accounts of Japan 3) an invitational lecture series by Professor Carrie Shanafelt (Fairleigh Dickinson University, NY, USA) 4) planning for a symposium on travel writing and Tokyo, to take place in 2020.

My presentation plans for 2019 include a panel on teaching the global eighteenth century to Japanese undergraduates at the 10th Liberlit Conference (Seikei University, June 2019), and a presentation on Western travel writing in Japan at the Aesthetics of Oceans international conference (Seikei University, July 2019).

次年度使用額が生じた理由

1) Overseas research trip to university libraries, such as Hong Kong and the British Library
2) Inviting visiting speakers to Sophia University to talk on eighteenth and nineteenth century literature and travel writing.

  • 研究成果

    (4件)

すべて 2019 2018

すべて 学会発表 (2件) (うち国際学会 2件) 図書 (1件) 学会・シンポジウム開催 (1件)

  • [学会発表] “Frankenstein at 200”2018

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Williams, Laurence
    • 学会等名
      “Humanity and the Post-Human in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A 200th Anniversary Symposium", Sophia University, Tokyo
    • 国際学会
  • [学会発表] “The “Sacred Mountain”: Visual and Religious Sublimity in Western Representations of Mount Fuji, 1880 to 1900”2018

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Williams, Laurence
    • 学会等名
      American Comparative Literature Association, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
    • 国際学会
  • [図書] British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Williams, Laurence, and Watson, Alex
    • 総ページ数
      414
    • 出版者
      Palgrave Macmillan
    • ISBN
      10.1007/978-981-13-3001-8
  • [学会・シンポジウム開催] The Scientist as Mental Traveller, seminar with Dr Noah Heringman (University of Missouri), Sophia University, 22 October 20182018

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公開日: 2019-12-27  

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