Based on this excerpt, to what school of literary criticism does Sandra Gilbert adhere: "A half–century ago formalist critic Allen Tate emphasized the universality of Emily Dickinson's poetry, affirming how powerfully the language, imagery, and mythmaking of her poems combine to affect a generalized reader. But Sandra Gilbert . . . identifies attitudes and assumptions in Dickinson's poetry that are characteristically female, greatly attributable to the difficult position of an intellectual woman in nineteenth–century Massachusetts"? (Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory, X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, and Mark Bauerlein)

A.
reader–response

B.
mythological

C.
gender

D.
sociological