Margaret Cavendish : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by Lisa Walters, Brandie R. Siegfried.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walters, Lisa, 1975- editor.

Siegfried, Brandie R. (Brandie Renee), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish.

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

Women authors, English--17th century--Biography.

Women authors, English.

Women philosophers--England--Biography.

Women philosophers.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Philosophy, British--17th century.

Philosophy, British.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Margaret 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.

Contents:

Introduction: The intellectual span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters

Margaret Cavendish : Natural philosopher and feminist / Carolyn Merchant

Margaret Cavendish thinks about sex / Lisa T. Sarasohn

Margaret Cavendish and the rhetoric and aesthetics of the microscopic image in seventeenth-century England / Stephen Clucas

Margaret Cavendish and the nature of infinity / Sara Mendelson

Cavendish's philosophy of the passions : theory and practice / Jacqueline Broad and Maks Sipowicz

Cavendish, philosophical letters, and the plenum / David Cunning

Cavendish's philosophical genres in philosophical and physical opinions and the question of hierarchy / Karen Detlefsen

Of webs and wonder : the atomic vitalism of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies / Brandie R. Siegfried

The blazing world : literary history, genre, and the inner world / Mary Baine Campbel

Margaret Cavendish's prudence or, preservation and transformation in Playes (1662) and Plays never before printed (1668) / Lara Dodds

Lady Newcastle's 'Unsoiled petticoats' and the literary reputation of Margaret Cavendish, 1652-1985 / James Fitzmaurice

The politics of the English civil wars in Natures pictures / Mihoko Suzuki

Cavendish : the nexus among orations, power, and women intellectuals / Hilda L. Smith

Margaret Cavendish's sociable letter #16 : women's political obligation and independence / Joanne H. Wright

Close reading (and) textual bibliography : how many parts does Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world have? / Liza Blake

Companions, competitors, contexts : Margaret Cavendish in women writers online / Sarah Connell

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

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ISBN:

9781108780780 (ebook)

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