A princely brave woman : essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

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    • Clucas, Stephen

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A princely brave woman : essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

edited with an introduction by Stephen Clucas

Ashgate, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-273) and index

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Margaret Cavendish was probably one of the first women to fashion herself as an author. Her scholarly acceptance has been uneasy, but, as these essays aim to show, rather than self-absorbed or lacking in method, her own "high-flying Phancies" are the self-legitimating grounds of her discourse.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Prose fictions: contracting readers - "Margaret Newcastle" and the rhetoric of conjugality, Kate Lilley
  • "How great is thy change" - familial discourses in the Cavendish family, Marion Wynn-Davies
  • "Of Mixt Natures" - questions of genre in Margaret Cavendish's "The Blazing World", Nicole Pohl
  • autobiography, parody and the "Sociable Letters" of Margaret Cavendish, James Fitzmaurice. Part 2 Drama: writing for the Brian and writing for the boards - the producibility of Margaret Cavendish's dramatic texts, Judith Peacock
  • making a spectacle - Margaret Cavendish and hte staging of the self, Rebecca D'Monte
  • "The Close Opened" - a reconstruction of "private" space in the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Jule Sanders. Part 3 Poetry: imagining the mind - Cavendish's Hobbesian allegories, Jay Stevenson
  • Margaret Cavendish's "Poems and Fancies" and Thomas Harriots' treatise on infinity, B.J. Sokol
  • a well-spun yarn - Margaret Cavendish and Homer's Penelope, Emma Rees. Part 4 Natural philosophy: Margaret Cavendish and Henry More, Sarah Hutton
  • variation, irregularity and probabilism - Margaret Cavendish and natural philosophy as rhetoric, Stephen Clucas
  • Margaret Cavendish and the Doctors of Physick and advice to the sick, Susan Fitzmaurice
  • paradigms and politics - Hobbes and Cavendish contrasted, Neil Ankers.

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