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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Battigelli, Anna, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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