Final exam on literature

gendered approaches to literature have often sought to counterbalance the male focus that this involved by concentrating more strongly on women’s perspectives.

It is rather easy to see how education, socially acceptable experience, leisure time and financial background are factors that determine the readership of literature. As far as education is concerned, even upper and middle class women had serious disadvantages, not being admitted until the late 19^th century to the schools and universities which represented the highest intellectual standards. Instead, they typically had to content themselves with a rather more limited education concentrating on moral virtues, modern languages and the social graces of music, singing, drawing, dancing and polite conversation. At the more basic level of