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It is often thought that the numerous contradictory perspectives in Margaret Cavendish's writings demonstrate her inability to reconcile her feminism with her conservative, royalist politics. In this book Lisa Walters challenges this view and demonstrates that Cavendish's ideas more closely resemble republican thought, and that her methodology is the foundation for subversive political, scientific and gender theories. With an interdisciplinary focus Walters closely examines Cavendish's work and its context, providing the reader with an enriched understanding of women's contribution to early modern scientific theory, political philosophy, culture and folklore. Considering also Cavendish's ideas in relation to Hobbes and Paracelsus, this volume is of great interest to scholars and students of literature, philosophy, history of ideas, political theory, gender studies and history of science.
Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] --- Women and literature --- History --- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Women and politics --- Women and literature - England - History - 17th century --- Women and politics - England - History - 17th century --- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, - Duchess of, - 1624?-1674 - Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cavendish, Margaret, --- Lucas, Margaret, --- Margaret, --- Margareta, --- Newcastle, --- Newcastle, Margaret, --- Newcastle, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, --- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, - Duchess of, - 1624?-1674 --- Women and literature. --- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish of, --- 1600-1699. --- England.
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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.
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, --- Women authors, English --- Women philosophers --- English literature --- Philosophy, British --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- England --- Intellectual life --- Philosophers --- Women scholars --- Women as philosophers --- English women authors --- Cavendish, Margaret, --- Lucas, Margaret, --- Margaret, --- Margareta, --- Newcastle, --- Newcastle, Margaret, --- Newcastle, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, --- Women authors, English. --- English Literature
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