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2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study of National Literature Consciousness of New England Transcendentalists

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 26370319
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionKagawa University

Principal Investigator

Matsushima Kinya  香川大学, 教育学部, 教授 (20165814)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywords国民文学 / 超絶主義 / ニューイングランド
Outline of Final Research Achievements

An appeal for literary independence in the United States was made by Noah Webster immediately after its political independence, and it was repeated by not only literary men but also politicians.
When English literary critics disparaged nascent American literature, Americans showed various responses. William Ellery Channing, a Unitarian minister, called for the rise of aristocratic national literature; Ralph Waldo Emerson, a transcendentalist, put an emphasis on independent national literature based on self-reliance; Orestes A. Brownson, a transcendentalist minister, argued that national literature should be based on people's democratic spirit; and Margaret Fuller, another transcendentalist, required people to develop national literature beyond gender and race. Thus transcendentalists contributed greatly to the development of American national literature in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Free Research Field

人文社会系、人文学、文学、英米・英語圏文学

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Published: 2018-03-22  

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