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English Authors Series - Women Writers of the English Renaissance

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In this book, Kim walker surveys the writings of major and minor English Women writers of the early modern period. Her survey comes inclusive of many genres that are not mentioned in many other books such as letters, diaries, autobiographies...In contrast to many studies; Walker doesn't focus solely on the published and recently canonized works of major renaissance women writers. Very New Historicist in her transcending the boundaries of "master narratives', Walker introduces us to many writer and Genres that can boost the inexorable interest in women writings of the early modern period. However, like many f the other critics, Walker stresses the prejudices than both "major" and "minor" women writers had to debunk in a time when women were circumscribed to the domestic and religious spheres.