Literature and Society in the Romantic and Modern Periods
FAIN: FS-10524-77
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
Alvin B. Kernan (Project Director: January 1977 to present)
To investigate the cultural values and social functions assigned to literature since about 1800 in three major aspects: 1) various roles assigned to the poet; 2) ways in which literary texts have been said to function; and 3) different views of the effect of literature on its audiences.