... aristocrats; "The gatekeepers of the fortress of high culture including influential critics, Museum Directors and their boards of trustees and far more lowly school teachers- . who have castigated texts by female writers and oppressed texts from ethnic minorities and lower classes to found what we now know as the western tradition of literature. Arguably these factors have helped the canonical classics ... in fact a predominantly male canon up until late Nineteenth Century represents more accurately the political position of men at the time, other writers present a "deviant, unrepresent...

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... fifth stanza Bradstreet states, I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, a poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, for such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, they'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance (Bradstreet 111). In simpler terms it can be concluded that ... ...

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... are a significant feature of her literature so it is vital for her to illustrate her ideas effectively in order to gain the reader's sympathies. The strength and bravery of the female characters within the novel contrasts with the depictions of men and enforces Walker's own view that "womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender." In Trying to Do Without ... ...

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... amply manifested in Richardson's novel "Pamela" where at one moment we see Pamela describing some dresses and bonnets handed over to her by her mistress, for the benefit of the female readers, and at the same time shyly alluding to her employer squire B's being smitten by her charms. The subjects of the novels were not Greek or Roman gods, nor knights ... ...

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