Early modern Englishwomen testing ideas
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Early modern Englishwomen testing ideas
Ashgate, c2011
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the 'late' early modern period, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century. This collection looks particularly at early modern women philosophers, playwrights and novelists, and considers how they engaged with ideas and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas, as well as literary innovations. This volume extends our understanding of the philosophical ideas and literary innovations of the early modern period and presents an exciting collection of women writers vigorously engaged with the intellectual debates that were occurring in the rapidly changing post-Restoration society.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophy and Science
- Chapter 1 Mary Astell's Machiavellian Moment? Politics and Feminism in Moderation truly Stated, Jacqueline Broad
- Chapter 2 'that you may, be]... as wise as Angels': the Religious Foundations of Mary Astell's Proposal for the Ladies, Parts I and II, Michal Michelson
- Chapter 3 Disruptive Behaviour in the Making of Science: Cavendish and the Community of Seventeenth-Century Science, Jo Wallwork
- Chapter 4 The Magnetic Attraction of Margaret Cavendish and Walter Charleton, L.E Semler
- Part II Women and Drama
- Chapter 5 'Yes, and': Margaret Cavendish, the Passions and Hermaphrodite Agency, Alexandra G. Bennett
- Chapter 6 Virginian Culture and Experimental Genre in Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter, David McInnis
- Part III Politics and Intrigue
- Chapter 7 'La Femme Forte': Katherine Philips and the Politics of her Dublin Writings, 1662-3, Rosalinde Schut
- Chapter 8 Narrative Person, Perspective and Voice in Eliza Haywood's The Adventures of Eovaai, Joanna Fowler
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