Redeeming Eve. Women Writers of the English Renaissance

Abstract

In a finely crafted work Elaine V. Beilin undertakes, through this first in depth study of thirty women writers of the English Renaissance, her colossal task of Redeeming Eve (Princeton University Press, 1987).Two 1930s doctoral studies had concluded that as a group, women writers of the English Renaissance "form an early modern tradition of women's writing" (xvi).Building upon this pioneering scholarship, Beilin adds a new dimension in her investigation into how these women were influenced by the social and literary attitudes of the time.She concludes that there

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