Authorial conquests : essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Cottegnies, Line, Weitz, Nancy, 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, N.J. : London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, [2003]
Subjects:	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, > Duchess of, > 1624?-1674 > Criticism and interpretation. Women and literature > England > History > 17th century. Literary form > History > 17th century. Poetics > History > 17th century.

Table of Contents:

Triply bound : genre and the exilic self / Emma L. E. Rees
Leviathan and the lady : Cavendish's critique of Hobbes in the philosophical letters / Lisa T. Sarasohn
Anecdotal and cabalistic forms in Observations upon experimental philosophy / Brandie R. Siegfried
Margaret Cavendish's Life of William, Plutarch, and mixed genre / James Fitzmaurice
The "native tongue" of the "authoress" : the mythical structure of Margaret Cavendish's autobiographical narrative / Line Cottegnies
Flattering division : Margaret Cavendish's poetics of variety / Hero Chalmers
Romantic fiction, moral anxiety, and social capital in Cavendish's "Assaulted and pursued chastity" / Nancy Weitz
Science and satire : the Lucianic voice of Margaret Cavendish's Description of a new world called the blazing world / Sarah Hutton
Fantastic realism : Margaret Cavendish and the possibilities of drama / Alexandra G. Bennett
Playing games with gender and genre : the dramatic self-fashioning of Margaret Cavendish / Sara Mendelson
Margaret Cavendish's drama : an aesthetic of fragmentation / Gisèle Venet.