To complete a Study of the Relation Between "Popular" and "Great" Literature, Focusing on Henry James

FAIN: FB-11309-72

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
William R Veeder (Project Director: October 1972 to present)

To examine style and popular culture by completing work on Henry James: Style in the Crucial Decade 1871-1881. The first two chapters examine James' debt to the style and characterization of the popular tradition; each chapter then ends with an examination of these two aspects of The Portrait of a Lady.