英國唯心論小說：十九世紀長時段中的哲學與文學(5/5)

This document is a final report on the results of my 2024-2025 NSTC project, “British Idealist Fictions: Philosophy and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century” (113-2636-H-003-001). This project encompasses the final year of a five-year Columbus grant. The original stated goal of the five-year project was to write a book on idealism in philosophy and literature during the long nineteenth century and publish it with a university press. There were four minor goals I set out to achieve since I submitted my previous midterm report in year four: first, to publish my book with a university press; second, to participate in international conferences; third, to facilitate academic events in Taiwan with international scholars; and fourth, to complete and publish additional articles beyond the book. I successfully completed the first goal: although Oxford University Press declined to publish my book on the basis of one positive and one negative review, I subsequently received two positive reviews from SUNY Press, and the book, Absolute Fiction: Idealist Philosophy and British Fiction, is forthcoming in June 2025. Over the course of the past year, I have been engaged in the process of preparing the book for publication, which has included revising and copyediting the manuscript, compiling the index, securing permissions, and other tasks. With regard to the second goal, in November 2023 I presented a paper in Taiwan at the Wenshan International Conference (technically this was during year four, but I mention it here because it occurred since the previous report). Moreover, in September 2024 I presented a paper at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference in California. For the third goal, I arranged a trip to Taiwan in March/April 2024 by Professor Kevin Corrigan of Emory University, who gave two lectures on idealism, one at National Taiwan Normal University and one at National Chengchi University. Finally, with regard to the fourth goal, I completed two additional articles that grew out of the aforementioned conference presentations, and they are currently under revise and resubmit status at top journals, Victorian Studies and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. The achievement of these four minor goals in year five means that I successfully achieved the overall aims of the Columbus grant. Over the course of five years that coincided with the COVID pandemic, I secured the publication of a book with a university press, wrote two additional articles, participated in four international conferences, facilitated four academic exchanges with prestigious international scholars, conducted valuable archival research at the University of Pennsylvania, and passionately shared the results of my research with graduate students and colleagues in Taiwan at seminars and invited talks. The attached final report elaborates on my achievements in year five and reflects on the overall results of my Columbus project.