Northrop Frye (1971) situated the beginnings of the low mimetic mode in literature in English literature, with Defoe (pp. 33-43). This mode coincided with, or was brought about by, the

For a Marxist reading of ‘Snowed Up’, a story by John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), one would have to re-examine basic, and controversial, notions of Marxism such as base and superstructure,