Authorial conquests : essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish / edited by Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cottegnies, Line.

Weitz, Nancy, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish.

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Literary form--History--17th century.

Literary form.

Poetics--History--17th century.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838639836

OCLC:

50948446