著者

高橋 美帆

出版者

天理大学学術研究委員会

雑誌

天理大学学報 (ISSN:03874311)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.2, pp.1-31, 2011-02

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'Nun' is one of the most prevalent themes in the 19 th century,although it is not a conspicuous craze but a silent spread of popularity. Women poets, such as Hemans, Landon, Browning, and Rossetti, started making adaptations of the Portuguese literature and circulating the works through themselves. They influenced each other, linked their works together, by borrowing or quoting phrases or themes each other, and made a mutual collaboration. As a result, they produced a significant intertextuality at a large―scale, which could be called 'the Portuguese Boom.' This boom is considered to have created and cultivated the literary theme of nun at that time. Accordingly, in the middle of the century, 'nun' became one of the literary trends, and took part in a sort of 'mini'genre, 'nun literature'. This paper deals with the intertextuality of Browning and Rossetti, with a slight introduction of Hopkins, and casts a new light on a genealogy of nun literature in the century through their works.