Economic and Social Literary Criticism
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about economic and social literary criticism.
The 'Economic and Social Literary Criticism' essay introduces a series of topics and questions and gives examples of resources to explore. It is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Lady Windermere's Fan | ||
| 12 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol | ||
| 13 | Jane Eyre | Illustrated by F. H. Townsend | |
| 14 | Venus and Adonis | ||
| 15 | The Rape of Lucrece | ||
| 16 | The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (lecture) | Lecture by Professor Paul H. Fry, part of Open Yale course 'Introduction to Theory of Literature'.… | OpenYale |
| 17 | The Classical Feminist Tradition (lecture) | Lecture by Professor Paul H. Fry, part of Open Yale course 'Introduction to Theory of Literature'.… | OpenYale |
| 18 | The Manifesto of the Communist Party | [From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels] | |
| 19 | Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture | This essay is the last of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr. Abigail… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 20 | The Anonymous Jane Austen | Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous authors in the western canon (possibly helped… | Kate O'Connor |