2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on the Literary Activities of Tudor Antiquaries and the Creation of a National Literary Tradition in Reformation England
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25370269
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 初期近代英文学 / テューダー朝 / 宗教改革 / 好古家 / 人文主義 / ナショナル・アイデンティティ / ルネサンス / 中世英詩 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study focuses on the literary activities of John Leland and three other Tudor antiquaries who were engaged in the creation of a national literary tradition and the formation of a literary canon in the face of a massive historical change that threatened to obliterate England’s literary heritage in the age of Reformation. Through a critical analysis of the nationalistic humanism that lay at the heart of their literary enterprises, this study also reassesses the vision of English literary history that first took shape in Leland’s bio-bibliographical work and persisted through the Elizabethan era into the later decades of the eighteenth century, which saw the publication of Thomas Warton's "History of English Poetry."
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| Free Research Field |
人文学
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