Margaret Cavendish

By (author) Emma Rees

Publication date:

29 January 2004

Length of book:

224 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780719060724

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.

Acknowledgements Introduction: A glorious resurrection 1. The 1650s: Genre and exile 2. 'Sweet Honey of the Muses': Lucretian resonance in 'Poems, and Fancies' 3. 'Heavens Library': Platonic paradigms and trial by genre 4. Travellia's travails: Homeric motifs in 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' 5. Figures of speech: 'The Animall Parliament' 6. Fictions of the mind Conclusion: Rehabilitations Appendix A - 'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius Bibliography