Emma Rees

Margaret Cavendish

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Produktbeschreibung

Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099328
• ISBN-10: 0719099323
• Artikelnr.: 42489454

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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