Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind.

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Battigelli, Anna, 1960- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in the English RenaissancePublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813147529
0813147522

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind.DDC classification:

828/.409 21

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PR3605.N2

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on Dates, Spelling, Editions, and Titles; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Writing Life; 2. A Strange Enchantment: ""The Wooing of the Mind"" at the Court of Henrietta Maria; 3. World and Mind in Conflict: Cavendish's Review of the New Atomism; 4. ""No House But My Mind"": Cavendish's Hobbesian Dilemma; 5. Rationalism versus Experimentalism: Cavendish's Satire of the Royal Society; 6. Conclusion: The Exiles of the Mind; Appendix A: Problems in the Dating of Margaret Lucas's Birth.

Appendix B: The Letters of Margaret Lucas Addressed to William CavendishNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; Z; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Summary: Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Appendix B: The Letters of Margaret Lucas Addressed to William CavendishNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; Z; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and.

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