Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Battigelli, Anna, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, > Duchess of, > 1624?-1674.
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, > Duchess of, > 1624?-1674 > Knowledge and learning.
Women and literature.
Royalists.
Renaissance.
Learning and scholarship.
Intellectual life.
Exiles in literature.
Exiles.
British.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Britanniques > Europe > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Royalistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Renaissance > England.
Exiles > Europe > History > 17th century.
British > Europe > History > 17th century.
Royalists > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Great Britain.
Europe.
England.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siecle.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9780813147529

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