Margaret Cavendish and the exiles of the mind

Author(s)

• Battigelli, Anna

Bibliographic Information

Margaret Cavendish and the exiles of the mind

Anna Battigelli

（Studies in the English Renaissance / John T. Shawcross, general editor）

University Press of Kentucky, c1998

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others.

Table of Contents

The Love of Wisdom Federer as Religious Experience Why Roger Federer is the Best Why Are All Tennis Films Bad? Excuses, Excuses Authoritarian Tennis Parents "You Cannot Be Serious!" Love-Love A Court Conversation Stabbing Seles The "Kournikova Phenomenon" Losing Beautifully Arthur Ashe The Ridiculous Meets the Radical in the Battle of the Sexes Friendship, Rivalry, and Excellence

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA42337842
• ISBN:
  • 0813120683
• LCCN: 97047261
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lexington, Ky.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 180 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR3605.N2
  • DC21 : 828/.409
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 -- Learning and scholarship
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Royalists -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Exiles -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : British -- Europe -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Exiles in literature
  • LCSH : Renaissance -- England
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19306327