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.
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'This new collection expertly gathers the work of a variety of scholars from diverse disciplines and connects the many threads that bring us closer to understanding the value of reading Margaret Cavendish from many perspectives at once.' Delilah Bermudez Brataas, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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This collection provides the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the works of Margaret Cavendish currently available.
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| In Memoriam |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: The Intellectual Span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
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PART I HISTORY OF SCIENCE |
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1 Margaret Cavendish: Natural Philosopher and Feminist |
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2 Margaret Cavendish Thinks about Sex |
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3 Margaret Cavendish and the Rhetoric and Aesthetics of the Microscopic Image in Seventeenth-Century England |
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4 Margaret Cavendish and the Nature of Infinity |
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5 Cavendish's Philosophy of the Passions: Theory and Practice |
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6 Cavendish, Philosophical Letters, and the Plenum |
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7 Cavendish's Philosophical Genres in Philosophical and Physical Opinions and the Question of Hierarchy |
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8 Of Webs and Wonder: The Atomic Vitalism of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies |
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9 The Blazing World: Literary History, Genre, and the Inner World |
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10 Margaret Cavendish's Prudence; or, Preservation and Transformation in Playes (1662) and Plays, Never Before Printed (1668) |
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11 Lady Newcastle's "Unsoiled Petticoats" and the Literary Reputation of Margaret Cavendish, 1652-1985 |
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12 The Politics of the English Civil Wars in Natures Pictures |
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13 Cavendish: The Nexus among Orations, Power, and Women Intellectuals |
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14 Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letter #16: Women's Political Obligation and Independence |
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15 Close Reading (and) Textual Bibliography: How Many Parts Does Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World Have? |
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16 Companions, Competitors, Contexts: Margaret Cavendish in Women Writers Online |
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17 Cavendish Studies and the Digital Turn |
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| Afterword: Margaret Cavendish: A Grandmother for Twenty-First Century Philosophy of Science |
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| Chronology of Works |
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| Select Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Lisa 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).
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