A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
This title was first published in 2003. This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish’s output - which included poetry, drama, prose fictions, orations, and natural philosophy - these essays re-assess Cavendish’s place in seventeenth- century literature and philosophy. Whilst approaching Cavendish’s work from a range of critical (and disciplinary) perspectives, the authors of these essays are united in their commitment to recovering her writings from their frequent characterisation as eccentric or idiosyncratic , and aim to present her work as historically legible within the cultural contexts in which they were written. The Mad Madge of literary legend and tradition is re-written as a bold, innovative and experimental creator of a female authorial voice, and as a thinker vitally in contact with the intellectual currents of her age.
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