Friday, September 23 at 4:00, LC 319 the The 18th-19th-Century Colloquium presents: Stefanie Markovits, Professor of English, Yale University. Her first book demonstrated the scope of my concerns by considering the treatment of literary and political action in writers from Wordsworth to Henry James. While her second, on the Victorian response to an unpopular war (the Crimean War, 1854-56), is narrower, it allowed me to think further about the impact of social and political matters on formal ones: how (for example) does patriotic poetry translate the blunders of the Crimea into verse? I am currently beginning a project on long narrative verse of the period, which will consider issues of generic allegiance by placing them within a cultural context.