Literature and Culture in America
FAIN: FS-10008-73
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205)
Larzer Ziff (Project Director: April 1973 to present)
To fund a seminar which will concern the major works of American literature as they relate to the broader culture that shaped them. Work toward such an analysis is designed as a contribution to informing undergraduate instruction in American concerns about cultural identity and the meaning of literature in a mass democracy.