A Study of the Bronte Juvenilia (2) …Branwell Bronte…

本研究项目主要研究布兰韦尔·勃朗特在创作《勃朗特少年》的过程中所涉及的近十五年的时间。布兰韦尔与他的妹妹夏洛特一起工作了十年，在主题和故事发展方面对她影响很大。在这个项目的第一年，我学习了布兰韦尔的《年轻人的历史》。这个散文叙事很重要，因为它与夏洛蒂当时的几部作品相似。我试图追溯布兰韦尔和夏洛特是如何相互影响的，并讨论了布兰韦尔在他的故事中反对非洲土著的特点。第二年，我读了布兰韦尔的两篇战争小说：《侵略战争》和《侵略战争》。他们被认为在整个安格里亚故事的发展中发挥了很大的作用。在我的项目中，我处理的三种主要叙事，加上我已经讨论过的《一个英国人的来信》，涵盖了布兰韦尔少年时期散文作品的第一阶段。我还介绍了英国勃朗特学会出版的《勃朗特研究》中关于布兰韦尔的最新研究成果。除了上述研究之外，我还出版了夏洛蒂·勃朗特的《未开封卷上的一片叶子》的译本（2001年4月由高学宝和由美出版社出版），以及2001年10月由开文社出版的题为《勃朗特少年小说的后殖民特征》的文章。除了对勃朗特少女的研究之外，我最近还开始了对19世纪后期以来勃朗特在日本的接受情况的进一步研究。我在《勃朗特研究》（第27卷第2部分）上发表了一篇文章，在日本剑州社出版的《崛起的一代》（第148卷第4、5期）上发表了两篇文章。

This research project focused on the involvement of Branwell Bronte in the process of creating the Bronte juvenilia covering a period of nearly fifteen years. Branwell worked together with his sister Charlotte for the first ten years and influenced her greatly in terms of the subject matter as well as story development.In the first year of this project, I deal with The History of the Young Men' by Branwell. This prose narrative is significant because it parallels several of Charlotte's works at this time. I tried to trace how Branwell and Charlotte influence on each other, and discussed features of Branwell's which were against the native Africans in his stories.In the second year, I dealt with Branwell's two war stories entitled 'The War of Encroachment' and 'The War of Aggression'. They are considered to have played a large role in the development of the Angrian tales as a whole. The three major narratives I dealt with in my project, plus Letters from an Englishman' which I have already discussed, covered Branwell's first stage in the juvenilia as far as prose work was concerned. I also introduced research results of the latest studies on Branwell which were published in the Bronte Studies published by the Bronte Society England.In addition to the research mentioned above, I published a translation of 'A Leaf from an Unopened Volume' by Charlotte Bronte published by Takashobo & Yumi Press in April 2001, as well as an article entitled Post-colonial Features in the Bronte Juvenilia' published by Kaibunsha in October 2001. Besides the reseach on the Bronte juvenilia, I have recently started additional research on the reception of the Brontes in Japan since the late nineteenth century. I authored an article in the Bronte Studies (vol.27, part 2) and two articles in the Rising Generation (vol.148, issues 4 & 5) published by Kenkyusha, Japan.