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 | Great expectations | ebook version of Great expectations | |
| 12 | Dickens' Railways | Professor Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on… | Stephen Gill |
| 13 | Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt2 (lecture) | Video lecture by Simon Swift, University of Leeds and discussion board. In this second part of… | Simon Swift |
| 14 | Commerce and Culture, Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Theater | Lecture 2 from a ten-lecture course presented by Paul A. Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor… | Paul A. Cantor |
| 15 | Lady Windermere's Fan | ||
| 16 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol | ||
| 17 | Jane Eyre | Illustrated by F. H. Townsend | |
| 18 | Venus and Adonis | ||
| 19 | The Rape of Lucrece | ||
| 20 | The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (lecture) | Lecture by Professor Paul H. Fry, part of Open Yale course 'Introduction to Theory of Literature'.… | OpenYale |