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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | The Anonymous Jane Austen | Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous authors in the western canon (possibly helped… | Kate O'Connor |
| 3 | Stephen Duck | Briefly, in 1730, the most talked about poet in England was an agricultural labourer. The story of… | Jennifer Batt |
| 4 | Mary Leapor | A servant maid who died in relative obscurity at the age of just twenty-four, Mary Leapor (1722-… | Jennifer Batt |
| 5 | Eighteenth century labouring-class writing | By Jennifer Batt In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the itch of scribbling had seized the nation… | Jennifer Batt |
| 6 | Charlotte Brontë: A Wish for Wings | Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was born on April 21, 1816, the third daughter of Rev. Patrick and… | Erin Nyborg |
| 7 | Ben Jonson: Renaissance Playwright, Renaissance Man | Ben Jonson 1572-1637) was an early modern playwright whose popularity rivaled that of Shakespeare… | Kate O'Connor |
| 8 | Spiritualism, Science and Atavism | In the Victorian era, Gothic fiction had ceased to be a dominant literary genre. However, the… | Charlotte Barrett |
| 9 | Renaissance Theatre | When John Brayne built the Red Lion Theatre in London’s Whitechapel in 1569, he could hardly have… | Emma Smith |