Margaret Cavendish
Author:   Emma Rees ,  Emma L. E. Rees ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Margaret Cavendish


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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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Author:   Emma Rees ,  Emma L. E. Rees ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9780719099328


ISBN 10:   0719099323
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 -- .

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Emma L. E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Chester College

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