Authorial conquests : essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish

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    • Cottegnies, Line
    • Weitz, Nancy

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Authorial conquests : essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish

edited by Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , Associated University Presses, c2003

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • Triply bound : genre and the exilic self / Emma L. E. Rees
  • Leviathan and the lady : Cavendish's critique of Hobbes in the philosophical letters / Lisa T. Sarasohn
  • Anecdotal and cabalistic forms in Observations upon experimental philosophy / Brandie R. Siegfried
  • Margaret Cavendish's Life of William, Plutarch, and mixed genre / James Fitzmaurice
  • The "native tongue" of the "authoress" : the mythical structure of Margaret Cavendish's autobiographical narrative / Line Cottegnies
  • Flattering division : Margaret Cavendish's poetics of variety / Hero Chalmers
  • Romantic fiction, moral anxiety, and social capital in Cavendish's "Assaulted and pursued chastity" / Nancy Weitz
  • Science and satire : the Lucianic voice of Margaret Cavendish's Description of a new world called the blazing world / Sarah Hutton
  • Fantastic realism : Margaret Cavendish and the possibilities of drama / Alexandra G. Bennett
  • Playing games with gender and genre : the dramatic self-fashioning of Margaret Cavendish / Sara Mendelson
  • Margaret Cavendish's drama : an aesthetic of fragmentation / Gisèle Venet

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内容説明

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers the first substantial study of Margaret Cavendish's innovative use of genre and tries to render justice to her extraordinary authorial ambition. The thoroughness of Cavendish's literary project was formiddable: she set out to build up a large body of work by systematic "conquest" of the major seveneenth-century genres, questioning their codes and conventions, while reflecting on her own practice. Many of her works strike readers as chaotic, but a consistent poetics does emerge once we acknowledge that humanistic ideals of order and symmetry are not her aim; they require a hybrid perspective, and it bears evidence to their complexity and modernity that they still challenge readers' responses and practices today. The eleven contributions to this volume are interdisciplinary and multinational and represent a variety of modern critical approaches to the problems of placing Cavendish's generic explorations in the context of contemporary literary and philosophical history.

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