Margaret Cavendish : an interdisciplinary perspective /
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 writing...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | 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 each of her major works and offers the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource on Cavendish's oeuvre to date. The astonishing breadth of her varied intellectual achievements is reflected through elegantly-arranged sections on history of science, philosophy, literature, politics and new directions, together with an afterword by award-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt. The first book to cover 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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| Physical Description: | xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108490368 1108490360 9781108748438 1108748430 |