Research into the Social and Political Origins of Romantic Ideas of Culture
FAIN: FB-11247-72
Williams College (Williamstown, MA 01267-2600)
Richard G. Hendrix (Project Director: September 1972 to present)
To study popular attitudes toward the arts, in theory and practice, especially in the vigorous radical publications of the Regency years, 1816-20. The subject raises basic questions about the relationship between literary elites and popular culture.