Blazing World
Bolsover Castle
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Cavendish experimental authorship studies
Cavendish's Critique
Cavendish's Natural Philosophy
Cavendish's Philosophy
Cavendish's Plays
Cavendish's Work
Cavendish's Writing
Cavendish’s Critique
Cavendish’s Natural Philosophy
Cavendish’s Philosophy
Cavendish’s Plays
Cavendish’s Work
Cavendish’s Writing
CCXI Sociable Letters
Conjectura Cabbalistica
De Infinitis
Des Cartes
Duchess
early modern literature
Early Modern Women Dramatists
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female intellectual history
Female Orations
interdisciplinary literary criticism
Lady Happy
literary genre theory
Margaret
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish's Plays
Margaret Cavendish’s Plays
Mary Wroth
natural philosophy history
Newcastle
Philosophical Letters
Princely Brave Woman
seventeenth-century women writers
Sociable Letters
Vice Versa
William Cavendish
Worlds Olio
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138724167
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 154 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title was first published in 2003. This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish's output - which included poetry, drama, prose fictions, orations, and natural philosophy - these essays re-assess Cavendish's place in seventeenth- century literature and philosophy. Whilst approaching Cavendish's work from a range of critical (and disciplinary) perspectives, the authors of these essays are united in their commitment to recovering her writings from their frequent characterisation as "eccentric" or "idiosyncratic", and aim to present her work as historically legible within the cultural contexts in which they were written. The "Mad Madge" of literary legend and tradition is re-written as a bold, innovative and experimental creator of a female authorial voice, and as a thinker vitally in contact with the intellectual currents of her age.
