Which scholarly methods would a reader most likely employ to study gender in the Dido episode?

• A. Historical-biographical methods focusing on the author's life.
• B. Feminist or gender theory, psychoanalytic readings, postcolonial or performative approaches to voice, agency, and power.
• C. Statistical analysis of gender representation across large corpora.
• D. Purely philological analysis of diction without considering gender.

Answer: (B)