Self, Epic, and the Romantic and Victorian Imagination

FAIN: FS-10054-75

Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher (Project Director: February 1975 to present)

To conduct a seminar on four long works with epic pretensions (Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Byron's Don Juan, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and George Eliot's Middlemarch) to develop connections and discriminations between Romantic and Victorian literature. To trace the depersonalization of the authorial self and the greater emphasis on "story" that takes place in the transition from Romantic to Victorian literature.