Feminist Approaches to Literature
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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 the political aspects of literature.
You may want to start by reading the 'Feminist Approaches to Literature' essay:
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Male memory, female subject: the case of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft | Janet Todd gives the keynote lecture at the Silence in the Archives conference held at Wolfson… | Janet Todd |
| 2 | The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance | The novelist Patricia Duncker gives the keynote lecture at the Life-Writing and Female Celebrity… | Patricia Duncker |
| 3 | As You Like It | Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and… | Emma Smith |
| 4 | Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing | Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing | Abigail Williams |
| 5 | The Comedy of Errors | Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical… | Emma Smith |
| 6 | George Eliot 3. Reception History | In this third and final podcast, Dr Catherine Brown discusses the popularity of George Eliot's work… | Catherine Brown |
| 7 | George Eliot 2. Genre and Justice | The second lecture in the series on George Eliot considers how narrative justice operates in… | Catherine Brown |
| 8 | English and Gender | Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by… | Deborah Cameron |
| 9 | Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if… | Annabell James |
| 10 | The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster | In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates… | Emma Smith |