ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book focuses on English Renaissance railing writers even the anti-Marprelate railers were consciously writing at the margins of literary production. And by insistently flinging invective and revilings upon misogynistic writers, the energy of the writers language displays far stronger attraction for the men against whom they write than for the women writers. It also focuses on western European as well as English literary manuscript and print traditions from 1350 to 1599, with particular emphasis on lyric, dialogue, novella, epic, pastoral/romance, and prose fiction, genres often linked with lush lyrical language. Although railing had some moments of afterlife, particularly during the English Civil War, it was mainly instrumental in aiding the dramatic shift from the lyrical, romantic expressions more often associated with the sixteenth century to the dominance of satire in the seventeenth century and beyond.
