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2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Reconsideration of the Complicit Relationship Between Nineteenth-Century British Imperialism and Fiction

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 22720108
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionTohoku Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

SUZUKI Jun  東北工業大学, 共通教育センター, 講師 (10552755)

Project Period (FY) 2010 – 2011
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
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.

  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2012 2011 2010

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Hardy's Misogyny : Reading Jude the Obscure as his Response to New Woman Fiction2012

    • Author(s)
      Jun Suzuki
    • Journal Title

      ハーディ研究

      Volume: 第38号

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Is Collins a "Conservative" or "Subversive" Novelist?: The Second Sight in Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep2012

    • Author(s)
      Jun Suzuki
    • Journal Title

      東北工業大学紀要II人文社会科学編

      Volume: 第32号 Pages: 89-100

  • [Presentation] ハーディのミソジニー-ニューウーマン小説への反応として『ジュード』を読む-2011

    • Author(s)
      鈴木淳
    • Organizer
      日本ハーディ協会第54回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学多摩キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2011-10-29
  • [Presentation] 後期イギリス帝国主義はスコットランドを文明化できるか-The Frozen Deepにおける千里眼-2010

    • Author(s)
      鈴木淳
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会第82回全国大会
    • Place of Presentation
      神戸大学国際文化学部キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2010-05-30

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Published: 2013-07-31  

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