2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Religious Thought in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
| Project/Area Number |
13610577
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHINAKA Takashi Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (30230775)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | seventeenth century / England / Literature / religion / politics |
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| Research Abstract |
My research on the relation between seventeenth-century literature and religious thought has contributed to English Literary studies in three areas.
No.1: I made two noteworthy discoveries in the field of Andrew Marvell studies by examining his poem ‘Bermudas' in the light of the religio-political circumstances in which it was composed. In particular, I pointed out that the image of ‘the Orange' in the poem provides a key to understanding Marvell's religious position when the reader notices the change in its significance from an anti-Catholic to an English Royalist and pro-Catholic one. Also, by quoting a newly discovered text, I demonstrated that in the summer of 1653, the foreign policy of the Cromwellian Commonwealth was in the process of shifting to an anti-Spanish/anti-Catholic position.
No.2: I have found an important connection between traducianism and the political use of traducianist images in the poetry of Robert Herrick. By finding a relevant reference to this unorthodox religious doctrine in Richard Overton's pamphlet, I argued that it had a crucial anti-Calvinistic significance in the middle of the seventeenth century.
No.3: I have made the first translation of Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans into Japanese, together with detailed annotations on religion and politics.
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Research Products
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