Renaissance Literature and Formal Engagements. Mark David Rasmussen
intellectual life brought several practical and psychological complexities. Here, a detailed study of Englishwomen's literacy in this period argues that the more the public life was denied women — and the more suspicion was generated toward the image of the educated woman — the more "the discovery of the intrinsic pleasures of learning justified their enclosure and made their solitude precious" (114). TITA FRENCH BAUMLIN Southwest Missouri State University