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of the Sphinx. It discusses theoretical issues of relevance to work on fiction and
representation.
Showalter, E., A Literature of Their Own (Virago 1977). A literary historical account of
British women’s writing from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries,
which argues that women’s writing is best understood using a subcultural model.
Taylor, H., ‘Class and gender in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley’, Feminist Review, no. 1
(1979). Argues that Shirley has been repeatedly misread in criticism because of the
failure to see her concern as being with class and sexual politics, rather than the one
being a metaphor for the other.

Marxism and literary criticism

Balibar, R., Les Français Fictifs (Paris: Hachette 1974). An account of the process by
which certain writings are recognized as ‘literary’ in the context of the development
of the French national language and education system in the nineteenth century.
Balibar, R., ‘An example of literary work in France: George Sand’s “La Mare au
Diable”/“The Devil’s Pool”’, in F.Barker et al. (eds.), The Sociology of Literature:
1848 (University of Essex Press 1978). An essay (in English) demonstrating
literature’s relation to literacy, social class and education, which Balibar developed
theoretically in Les Français Fictifs.
Barrett, M., et al. (eds.), Ideology and Cultural Production (Croom Helm 1979). A
collection of papers presented to the 1978 Annual BSA Conference on culture.
Various concrete studies locate and outline the main problems and issues within
cultural studies.
Bennett, T., Formalism and Marxism (Methuen 1979). A taut, clear and useful account of
Russian formalist criticism and of recent Althusserian Marxist criticism, concluding
with attractive suggestions for future work.
CCCS English Studies Group, ‘Thinking the thirties’, in F.Barker et al. (eds.), The
Sociology of Literature: 1936 (University of Essex Press 1980). An analysis of the
social relations of literary production, which suggests an analysis of fictional writing
in terms of a literary formation. It addresses a number of theoretical issues:
periodization, gender determination and the question of reading/s.
Davies, T., ‘Education, ideology and literature’, in Red Letters, no. 7 (1978). Seminal first
thoughts on Renée Balibar’s work in relation to English education and the English
language.
Dubois, J., L’Institution de la littérature (Brussels: Fernand Nathan 1978). A
‘sociological’ but very useful review of ways of thinking the literature/society
relation, whether or not the concept of the literary institution is found convincing.
Eagleton, T., Marxism and Literary Criticism (Methuen 1976). An introduction to and
account of the development of Marxist literary criticism, which outlines its main
theories and issues.
Eagleton, T., Criticism and Ideology (New Left Books 1977). An important theoretical
account of literature’s relation to ideology within an Althusserian framework.
Jameson, F., Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
(Princeton University Press 1972). A full and suggestive meditation on the work of
Adorno, Benjamin, Lukács, Sartre and others, ‘towards a dialectical criticism’ of
literary form.