Paul Salzman

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas

Herausgeber: Wallwork, Jo

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Produktbeschreibung

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the late early modern period. This collection looks particularly at early modern women philosophers, playwrights and novelists, and considers how they engaged with ideas and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas, as well as literary innovations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781409419693
• ISBN-10: 140941969X
• Artikelnr.: 45339144

Autorenporträt

Jo Wallwork is Honorary Associate in the English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Australia. Paul Salzman is Reader and Associate Professor of English at La Trobe University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I Philosophy and Science; Chapter 1 Mary Astell's Machiavellian Moment? Politics and Feminism in Moderation truly Stated
Jacqueline Broad; Chapter 2 'that you may
be]... as wise as Angels': the Religious Foundations of Mary Astell's Proposal for the Ladies
Parts I and II
Michal Michelson; Chapter 3 Disruptive Behaviour in the Making of Science: Cavendish and the Community of Seventeenth-Century Science
Jo Wallwork; Chapter 4 The Magnetic Attraction of Margaret Cavendish and Walter Charleton
L.E Semler; Part II Women and Drama; Chapter 5 'Yes
and': Margaret Cavendish
the Passions and Hermaphrodite Agency
Alexandra G. Bennett; Chapter 6 Virginian Culture and Experimental Genre in Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter
David McInnis; Part III Politics and Intrigue; Chapter 7 'La Femme Forte': Katherine Philips and the Politics of her Dublin Writings
1662-3
Rosalinde Schut; Chapter 8 Narrative Person
Perspective and Voice in Eliza Haywood's The Adventures of Eovaai
Joanna Fowler;