Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the traditional English canon

The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still

This book examines the way in which early modern women writers conceived of grief and the relationship between the dead and the living.

The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers

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