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God and nature in the thought of Margaret Cavendish / edited by Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa T. Sarasohn.
Van Pelt Library PR3605.N2 Z73 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674--Criticism and interpretation.
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish.
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674--Philosophy.
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
- Religion and science--England--History--17th century.
- Religion and science.
- God in literature.
- Theology in literature.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 257 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the duchess and the divine. Claims to orthodoxy: how far can we trust Margaret Cavendish's autobiography? / Hilda l. Smith
- The God of nature and the nature of God / Sara Mendelson
- Darkness, death, and precarious life in Cavendish's sociable letters and orations / Joanne H. Wright
- God and the question of sense perception in the works of Margaret Cavendish / Brandie R. Siegfried
- Paganism, Christianity, and the faculty of fancy in the writing of Margaret Cavendish / James Fitzmaurice
- Fideism, sin, and the faithful veneration of nature in Margaret Cavendish's philosophical letters / Lisa T. Sarasohn
- Brilliant heterodoxy: the plurality of worlds in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world (1666) and Cyrano de Bergerac's Estats et empires de la lune / Line Cottegnies
- "A double perception in all creatures": Margaret Cavendish's philosophical letters and seventeenth-century natural philosophy / Stephen Clucas
- Natural magic in the convent of pleasure / John Shanahan
- Margaret Cavendish's cabbala: the empress and the spirits in the blazing world / Perrin Radley
- Margaret Cavendish and the Jews / Sara Mendelson
- "Soulified": Cavendish, Rubens, and the cabbalistic tree of life / Brandie R. Siegfried.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472439611
- 1472439619
- OCLC:
- 880861713
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