Catherine Belsey obituary
Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 23.20 EST Students of English literature now tend to take for granted politicised readings of fiction and the ability to talk about Shakespeare in the same breath as Mills and Boon. But things were not always this way, and the discipline owes much of its present freedom and focus to the work of Catherine Belsey, who has died aged 80 following a stroke. Her book Critical Practice (1980) made her name and transformed the discipline of English literature. In the 1970s academic literary analysis was, in Kate’s words, “looking distinctly dusty” in its belief ...
Source: theguardian.com