The Sense of Beauty and Identity Perceived in British Travel Writings in the 18th and 19th Centuries

本研究试图考察18、19世纪英国旅行作品的美感和身份感，并阐明以下几点：1)多萝西·华兹华斯和海伦·玛丽亚·威廉姆斯作品的重要性，这一点以前没有得到充分的评价；2)小说家狄更斯游记的特点及其与其他小说的关系；3)访问日本特别是宫岛的西方人游记的特点和影响。我们制作了一个网站来发布这项研究的结果，供学生或其他学者用于他们自己在这个领域的研究。

This study has attempted to examine the sense of beauty and identity and clarify the following points regarding British travel writings in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: 1) the significance of the writing of Dorothy Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams, which had not previously been fully evaluated; 2) the characteristics of travel books of Charles Dickens the novelist, and their relation to his and other novels; 3) the characteristics and influence of travel writings by Westerners who visited Japan, particularly Miyajima.A website was made for publishing the results of this research for students or other scholars to utilize for their own research in this field.