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OverviewMargaret 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa Walters (University of Queensland) , Brandie R. Siegfried (Brigham Young University, Utah)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781108490368ISBN 10: 1108490360 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 12 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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.Reviews"""Walters's book is most helpful in examining Cavendish's complex thinking in a new way ... Recommended. Graduate students, researchers [and] faculty."" M. Cole, Choice" Walters's book is most helpful in examining Cavendish's complex thinking in a new way ... Recommended. Graduate students, researchers [and] faculty. M. Cole, Choice Author InformationLisa Walters is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is author of Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics (Cambridge 2014). She coedits the Restoration section of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women Writers and has published articles on Cavendish, Shakespeare and Milton. Brandie R. Siegfried was the Nan Grass Professor at Brigham Young University. She won the Josephine Roberts Award for the Best Scholarly Edition of 2018, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, for her edition of Cavendish's Poems and Fancies. She also coedited two volumes, including World-making Renaissance Women (Cambridge 2021). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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