Margaret Cavendish
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Margaret Cavendish

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Margaret Cavendish

About this book

Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific and imaginative advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses.Emma Rees examines how Cavendish engaged with the work of thinkers such as Lucretius, Plato, Homer and Harvey in an attempt to write her way out of the exile which threatened not only her intellectual pursuits but her very existence. What emerges is the image of an intelligent, audacious and intrepid early modern woman whose tale will appeal to specialists and general readers alike.

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Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: a glorious resurrection
  5. 1 The 1650s: genre and exile
  6. 2 'Sweet Honey of the Muses':Lucretian resonance in Poems, and Fancies
  7. 3 Heavens Library: Platonic paradigms and trial by genre
  8. 4 Travellia' s travails: Homeric motifs in Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
  9. 5 Figures of speech: The Animall Parliament
  10. 6 Fictions of the mind
  11. Conclusion: rehabilitations
  12. Appendix'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

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