Final exam on literature

gender roles, by affecting access to factors like education, experience, time and financial support, have had their influence on the ways in which men and women could participate in literature as writers, readers, critics, and arguably even as characters. The heroine of Jane Austen’s last complete novel Persuasion (1818), Anne Elliot says, “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands,” and indeed until a few decades ago political, economic and cultural power rested overwhelmingly with men in the English-speaking world (and in many other cultures). Therefore,