2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Representation of "Tea" and "Women" in the Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Project/Area Number |
21652028
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Literature in English
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Research Institution | Teikyo University |
Principal Investigator |
ONO Masako 帝京大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80233229)
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Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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Keywords | 英文学 / 18世紀 / 紅茶 / 女性 / 贅沢 / 消費社会 / 物質文化 / 階級 |
Research Abstract |
Expensive tea and luxury tea equipage, brought to England by the East Indian Company first in the late seventeenth century, became the passion for the rich who tried to mark their polite status by a set of material attributes. Literary texts, however, present women as more likely to be seduced by such luxury. The male imagination associates the female appetite for things with that for sex. Through the misogynic discourse "tea" becomes a fit metaphor for the female voracity.
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Research Products
(1 results)