The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies
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intervening in contemporary debates and hoping thereby to shape the future. Despite the occasional plangent note, Chedzgoy’s book celebrates the voices of the women she studies, voices that are often grieving and nostalgic, but also by turns witty, brittle, defiant, erudite, eccentric, and full of pluck. Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World is a dignified and elegant monument and memorial to them, even as it encourages us to pursue similar memory work.
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