Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
Date (from‐to) : 2008 -2010
Author : Taeko KITAHARA
This study explores how a kind of "American Cultural Circle" was constructed at the end of the nineteenth century among Euro-American intellectuals--international novelists in particular, who were friends, confreres, and rivals. Here, I especially pay attention to an American novelist who lived and worked in Italy, F.Marion Crawford, as the key person of this movement. After examining his literary/cultural works, I have observed the novelist's wide-ranging influence on various cultural dimensions, from literary criticism to popular culture. Simultaneously, I have researched the novelist's f...