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 | Theatre, 1660-1760: The Arrival of the Actress | In this undergraduate lecture, David Taylor describes one of the key theatrical developments of… | David Taylor |
| 2 | Literature and Gender, 1660-1760 | In this introductory lecture, Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth… | Kathleen Keown |
| 3 | Queer Theory and Gender Performativity | Lecture by Professor Paul H. Fry, part of Open Yale course 'Introduction to Theory of Literature'.… | Paul Fry |
| 4 | How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt2) | Video podcast and discussion board. Simon Swift, University of Leeds | Simon Swift |
| 5 | How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt1) | Video podcast and discussion forum. By Simon Swift, University of Leeds. | Simon Swift |
| 6 | The Classical Feminist Tradition (lecture) | Lecture by Professor Paul H. Fry, part of Open Yale course 'Introduction to Theory of Literature'.… | OpenYale |
| 7 | The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality (lecture) | Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video,… | Richard Evans |
| 8 | Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing | Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing | Abigail Williams |