I'd love to see this English Lit assignment. It sounds more like an exercise in Poly Sci
Which is what I was wondering. My Eng Lit assignments were usually, "Read and report on everything written by Dickens by next week" or "outline every thought of Chaucer with extra credit if you do it in middle English".
We never had "think like a democrat" and Lord Keynes did not come up as "English Lit".