2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Emily Dickinson and the East : Its Influence through Joseph Neesima and William Clark

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520265
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kobe College
Principal Investigator	UNO Hiroko Kobe College, 文学部, 教授 (30145718)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	日米文化交流 / エミリ・ディキンスン / 日本の鎖国と開国 / 米国外交政策
Research Abstract	I have found that Emily Dickinson learned of Japan and even of the America's foreign policy to pry Japan out of seclusion in the 1850s through newspapers and directly through her father, who was a Congressman during Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan. I published a paper on it in the book The World of Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Since it took me so much time to collect documents in the 1850s, the researches on her relationship with Clark and Neesima in the 1860s and 1870s were halfway done.