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Author : Anna Battigelli
Release : 1998
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 279/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind by : Anna Battigelli
Download or read book Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind written by Anna Battigelli. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Battigelli
Release : 2021-10-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind by : Anna Battigelli
Download or read book Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind written by Anna Battigelli. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others.
Author : Margaret Cavendish
Release : 2021-04-15
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Book Synopsis The Blazing World Illustrated by : Margaret Cavendish
Download or read book The Blazing World Illustrated written by Margaret Cavendish. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner ofScience Fiction-General. It can also be read as a utopian work
Author : Lisa Walters
Release : 2022-05-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Margaret Cavendish by : Lisa Walters
Download or read book Margaret Cavendish written by Lisa Walters. This book was released on 2022-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Margaret Cavendish
Release : 1994-03-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Blazing World and Other Writings by : Margaret Cavendish
Download or read book The Blazing World and Other Writings written by Margaret Cavendish. This book was released on 1994-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.
