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Margaret Cavendish

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...

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The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish

This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of...

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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton 'Well-written, well-researched, interesting...

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Margaret Cavendish's The Unnatural Tragedy

This is a retelling of Margaret Cavendish's THE UNNATURAL TRAGEDY. This play has three plots: One: Monsieur FRERE pursues an incestuous relationship with his sister, Madame SOEUR. Two: The sociable...

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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

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The Lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of his Wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle

The Lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of his Wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872.Hansebooks is editor of the...

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Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

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Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and...

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Margaret the First

"I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First.""I am as Ambitious as ever any of my...

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Lectures on the Universal Principles and Duties of Religion and Morality. As They Have Been Read in Margaret-Street, Cavendish-Square, in the Years 1776, and 1777. By the Rev. David Williams.

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A sermon preached at the opening of a chapel in Margaret-Street, Cavendish-Square; and the introduction of a liturgy on the universal principles of religion and morality. On Sunday, April 7th, 1776. By D. Williams.

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A Sermon Preached at the Opening of a Chapel in Margaret-Street, Cavendish-Square; and the Introduction of a Liturgy on the Universal Principles of Religion and Morality. On Sunday, April 7th, 1776. By D. Williams

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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World

In this remarkable proto-science fiction story from 1666 -- which also bear striking resemblances with modern fantasy -- the author Lady Margaret Cavendish explores an allegorical and satirical...

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Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing

Emotive language is now best understood by combining the analytic techniques of classical rhetoric with current linguistic practices. With or without prompting, the "passions" of Renaissance culture...

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Renaissance Papers 2019

Sixty-sixth annual volume, taking in a range of topics relating to the literature of the period, from the power of naming to Shakespeare and Spenser, Herbert, Margaret Tyler and Margaret Cavendish,...

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Penelope Voyages

Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Lawrence explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself in testing...

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Forms of Engagement

What does it mean for a woman to write an elegy, ode, epic, or blazon in the seventeenth century? How does their reading affect women's use of particular poetic forms and what can the physical...

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A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading...

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Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret...

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The Blazing World

When a young woman is shipwrecked in the kingdom of the Blazing World, she befriends the natives, a highly intelligent and tolerant group of humanoid animals. With the help of the locals, the woman...

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Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing

Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of...

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Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives-historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the...

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The Catholicism of literature in the age of the Book of Common Prayer

Offering a complete reading of English Literature throughout 1558-1689, this book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature from the accession of Elizabeth I to the...

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The Convent of Pleasure

The Convent of Pleasure (1868) is a closet drama by Margaret Cavendish. Intended for private performance rather than the stage, The Convent of Pleasure is a comedy that critiques the institution of...

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Women poets of the English Civil War

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish,...

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Privacy and Print

A midst the other religious, political, and technological changes in seventeenth-century England, the ready availability of printed books was the most significant sign of the disappearance of old...

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Suffering in Paradise

In Suffering in Paradise, Rebecca Totaro provides a unique and timely discussion of the bubonic plague as it shaped Literary Studies in England from 1500 through the first half of the eighteenth...

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Travel and Travail

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel...

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The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some...

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Women reading Shakespeare 16601900

"Women reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900" comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Since Margaret Cavendish published the first critical essay on Shakespeare in...

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Grounds of Natural Philosophy Divided into Thirteen Parts

"Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts" by the Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle is a groundbreaking work that exemplifies early modern philosophy, blending science and...

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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature by Abe Davies (Hardcover)

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, 'constantly beleeve' that...

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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature by Abe Davies (Paperback)

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, 'constantly beleeve' that...

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Renaissance Configurations

Preface: Renaissance Configurations; G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY 'Infinite Riches in a Little Room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet; J. Knowles Shakespeare 'Creepes into the Women's...

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Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance

This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering...

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Vital Strife

Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book-by Jasper Heywood,...

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Women Philosophers on Autonomy

We encounter autonomy in virtually every area of philosophy: in its relation with rationality, personality, self-identity, authenticity, freedom, moral values and motivations, and forms of...

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Wonder and Science

During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by...

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Epistolary Community in Print, 1580-1664

Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic...

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Erotic Subjects

Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that...

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Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne...

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Animal Characters

During the Renaissance, horses--long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant--gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive...

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Engendering the Fall

Engendering the Fall John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers Shannon Miller""This is an ambitious book, tackling some central issues in the study of seventeenth-century literature and...

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A Companion to Hobbes

Offers comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes’s thought, providing readers with different ways of understanding Hobbes as a systematic philosopher As one of the founders of modern...

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