A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

Correct answer: A. Marxist criticism

  • A. Marxist criticism
  • B. Reader-response criticism
  • C. Psychoanalytic criticism
  • D. New Criticism

Explanation

Marxist criticism studies class relations, economic forces, ideology, and the distribution of social power represented in literature. The other approaches focus respectively on readers, the unconscious, or close textual form.

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