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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

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Early modern women writers are typically studied as voices from the margin, who engage in a counter-discourse to patriarchy and whose identities prefigure postmodern notions of fragmented selfhood. Studying a variety of literary forms – autobiographical writings, diaries, mothers’ advice books, poetry and drama – this innovative book approaches early modern women’s strategies of identity formation from an alternative angle: their self-writings should be understood as attempts to establish a coherent, stable and convincing subjectivity in spite of the constraints they encountered. While the authors acknowledge contradiction and ambiguity, they consistently strive to compromise and achieve balance. Drawing on social and cultural history, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, the close reading of the women’s texts and other, literary and non-literary sources reveals that the female writers seek to reconcile the affective, corporeal, social, economic and ideological dimensions of their identities and thereby question both the modern idea of the unified self and its postmodern, fragmented variant. The women’s identities as writers, mothers, spouses, household members and economic agents testify to their acceptance of contradictions, their adherence to patriarchal norms and simultaneous self-assertion. Their pragmatic stances suggest that their simultaneous confidence and anxiety should be taken seriously, as tentative, precarious, yet ultimately workable and convincing expressions of identity.

82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- British in literature --- Group identity in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Women in literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Women --- History and criticism. --- Identity. --- Self in literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Female identity --- Feminine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Women authors&delete& --- Identity --- Women's writings, English --- Early modern. --- Women authors. --- Female authors --- 1500-1700 --- Classical Period --- Early Modern Period --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Women authors --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Women and literature - England - History - 16th century --- Women and literature - England - History - 17th century

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Art d'écrire - Différences entre sexes. --- Art d'écrire --- Authorship --- Englisch. --- English literature --- Femmes - Angleterre - Histoire - 1450-1600 (Renaissance). --- Femmes et littérature - Angleterre - Histoire - 16e siècle. --- Femmes et littérature - Angleterre - Histoire - 17e siècle. --- Femmes et littérature --- Femmes --- Frauenliteratur. --- Littérature anglaise - 16e siècle - Histoire et critique. --- Littérature anglaise - 17e siècle - Histoire et critique. --- Littérature anglaise --- Schriftstellerin. --- Traduction littéraire - Angleterre - Histoire. --- Traduction littéraire --- Translating and interpreting --- Translating and interpreting. --- Women and literature --- Women and literature. --- Women --- Écrits de femmes anglais - Histoire et critique. --- Écrits de femmes anglais --- Übersetzung. --- Différences entre sexes. --- Sex differences. --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- History --- Renaissance. --- Histoire et critique. --- 1450-1700. --- Geschichte 1550-1650. --- England. --- Großbritannien. --- 820 "15/16" --- Engelse literatuur--?"15/16" --- -Literatuur en feminisme --- -82:396 --- 820 "15/16" Engelse literatuur--?"15/16" --- -82.03 Vertalen. Literaire vertaling --- 82.03 --- 82:396 --- 82.03 Vertalen. Literaire vertaling --- Vertalen. Literaire vertaling --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Sex differences --- Women authors&delete& --- England --- Translating --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 1450-1600 (Renaissance) --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism. --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Women and literature - England - History - 16th century. --- Women and literature - England - History - 17th century. --- Women - England - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- Translating and interpreting - England - History. --- Authorship - Sex differences.