Margaret Cavendish (eBook, PDF)

An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Redaktion: Walters, Lisa

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108801669
• Artikelnr.: 66181064

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The intellectual span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of
Newcastle Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters; History of Science: 1.
Margaret Cavendish: Natural philosopher and feminist Carolyn Merchant; 2.
Margaret Cavendish thinks about sex Lisa T. Sarasohn; 3. Margaret Cavendish
and the rhetoric and aesthetics of the microscopic image in
seventeenth-century England Stephen Clucas; 4. Margaret Cavendish and the
nature of infinity Sara Mendelson; Philosophy: 5. Cavendish's philosophy of
the passions: Theory and practice Jacqueline Broad and Maks Sipowicz; 6.
Cavendish, Philosophical Letters, and the Plenum David Cunning; 7.
Cavendish's philosophical genres in Philosophical and Physical Opinions and
the question of hierarchy Karen Detlefsen; Literature: 8. Of webs and
wonder: The atomic vitalism of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies
Brandie R. Siegfried; 9. The Blazing World: Literary history, genre, and
the inner world Mary Baine Campbel; 10. Margaret Cavendish's Prudence; or,
preservation and transformation in Playes (1662) and Plays Never Before
Printed (1668) Lara Dodds; 11. Lady Newcastle's 'Unsoiled Petticoats' and
the literary reputation of Margaret Cavendish, 1652¿1985 James Fitzmaurice;
Politics and Reception: 12. The politics of the English civil wars in
Natures Pictures Mihoko Suzuki; 13. Cavendish: The nexus among orations,
power, and women intellectuals Hilda L. Smith; 14. Margaret Cavendish's
sociable letter #16: Women's political obligation and independence Joanne
H. Wright; New Directions: 15. Close reading (and) textual bibliography:
How many parts does Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World have? Liza Blake;
16. Companions, competitors, contexts: Margaret Cavendish in women writers
online Sarah Connell; 17. 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.