Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540 to 1620Impressively examines the relation sixteenth-century controversies about the nature of women have to literature and life. |
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Contents
Exordium | 1 |
THE FORMAL CONTROVERSY | 11 |
The Early Tudor Controversy | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540 to 1620 |
| Author | Linda Woodbridge |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0252010272, 9780252010279 |
| Length | 364 pages |
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