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Margaret Cavendish : an interdisciplinary perspective
Title
Margaret Cavendish : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by Lisa Walters, Brandie R. Siegfried.
ISBN
9781108780780 (ebook)
9781108490368 (hardback)
9781108748438 (paperback)
Publication
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Summary
Margaret Cavendish's prolific and wide-ranging contributions to seventeenth-century intellectual culture are impossible to contain within the discrete confines of modern academic disciplines. Paying attention to the innovative uses of genre through which she enhanced and complicated her writings both within literature and beyond, this collection addresses her oeuvre and offers the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource on Cavendish's works to date. The astonishing breadth of her varied intellectual achievements is reflected through elegantly arranged sections on History of Science, Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Reception, and New Directions, together with an Afterword by award-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt. The first book to cover nearly all of Cavendish's major works in a single volume, this collection brings together a variety of expert perspectives to illuminate the remarkable ideas and achievements of one of the most fascinating and prolific figures of the early modern period.
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Cambridge core frontlist 2022.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 02, 2022
Contents
Introduction: The intellectual span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters
Margaret Cavendish : Natural philosopher and feminist / Carolyn Merchant
Margaret Cavendish thinks about sex / Lisa T. Sarasohn
Margaret Cavendish and the rhetoric and aesthetics of the microscopic image in seventeenth-century England / Stephen Clucas
Margaret Cavendish and the nature of infinity / Sara Mendelson
Cavendish's philosophy of the passions : theory and practice / Jacqueline Broad and Maks Sipowicz
Cavendish, philosophical letters, and the plenum / David Cunning
Cavendish's philosophical genres in philosophical and physical opinions and the question of hierarchy / Karen Detlefsen
Of webs and wonder : the atomic vitalism of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies / Brandie R. Siegfried
The blazing world : literary history, genre, and the inner world / Mary Baine Campbel
Margaret Cavendish's prudence or, preservation and transformation in Playes (1662) and Plays never before printed (1668) / Lara Dodds
Lady Newcastle's 'Unsoiled petticoats' and the literary reputation of Margaret Cavendish, 1652-1985 / James Fitzmaurice
The politics of the English civil wars in Natures pictures / Mihoko Suzuki
Cavendish : the nexus among orations, power, and women intellectuals / Hilda L. Smith
Margaret Cavendish's sociable letter #16 : women's political obligation and independence / Joanne H. Wright
Close reading (and) textual bibliography : how many parts does Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world have? / Liza Blake
Companions, competitors, contexts : Margaret Cavendish in women writers online / Sarah Connell
Cavendish studies and the digital turn / Jacob Tootalian and Shawn Moore
Afterword: Margaret Cavendish : a grandmother for twenty-first century philosophy of science / Siri Hustvedt.
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