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

本文试图通过对英国18、19世纪游记的审美意识和身份意识的考察，阐明以下几点：1）多萝西·华兹华斯和海伦·玛丽亚威廉姆斯游记的重要性，这是以往没有得到充分评价的; 2）小说家查尔斯·狄更斯游记的特点及其与其他小说的关系; 3）考察了以宫岛为代表的访日西方人游记的特点和影响，并建立了网站，将研究结果发表在网上，供学生和学者在这一领域进行研究时参考。

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.