2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Reconsideration of the Complicit Relationship Between Nineteenth-Century British Imperialism and Fiction
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22720108
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Tohoku Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
SUZUKI Jun 東北工業大学, 共通教育センター, 講師 (10552755)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 帝国主義 / 小説 / センセーション小説 / ニューウーマン小説 / セクシュアリティ |
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| Research Abstract |
Victorian fiction has been regarded as an instrument to maintain nineteenth-century British imperialism. However, in this study, by analyzing texts by Sarah Grand and Wilkie Collins, I have found out that they actually show an anxiety about the future of the nation. Specifically, by comparing Grand's "Eugenia" with Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, I have demonstrated Hardy's challenge to imperialistic discourses concerning women's roles. Moreover, by focusing on Collins's The Frozen Deep, I have shown that the rationality of the English gentleman is founded on the Otherness inside the English body.
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