In-between:Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism
VOLUME 9, NUMBERS 1 & 2
Margaret Cavendish (1623-73)
Contents
EMMA REES
‘Sweet honey of the Muses’: Lucretian resonance in Poems, and Fancies
3
SUSAN FITZMAURICE
‘But, Madam’: The interlocutor in Margaret Cavendish’s writing
17
JAMES FITZMAURICE
Margaret Cavendish in Antwerp: The actual and the imaginary
29
ELAINE HOBBY
‘Delight in a singularity’: Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of Newcastle, in 1671
41
LISA HOPKINS
Margaret Cavendish and the Cavendish Houses
63
DEBORAH BURKS
Margaret Cavendish: Royalism and the rhetoric of
ravenous and beastly desire
77
SUSANNAH QUINSEE
Margaret Cavendish’s critical heritage and the creation of
an infamous gendered literary identity
89
RHONDA POWERS
Margaret Cavendish and Shakespeare’s Ophelia:
Female role-playing and self-fashioned identity
107
REBECCA TOTARO
‘Fly from that Pestilent Destruction’:
Plague in the works of Margaret Cavendish
117
STEPHEN CLUCAS
The Duchess and the Viscountess:
Negotiations between mechanism and vitalism in the natural philosophies
of
Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway
125
LAURA FAVERO CARRARO
& ANTONELLA RIGAMONTI
Women’s discourse on science and learning
and the image of the learned lady
137
MARGUÉRITE CORPORAAL
‘My Mind a Busy Fool’: Margaret Cavendish’s reflections on science
147
LISA ANSCOMB
‘A Close, Naked, Natural Way of Speaking’: Gendered metaphor in the
texts of
Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society
161
DAVID NORBROOK
Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson:
Identity, ideology and politics
179
SUSAN WISEMAN
Epistolary networks: Harleys and Cavendishes
205
BERNADETTE ANDREA
Coming out in Margaret Cavendish’s closet dramas
219
REBECCA MERRENS
‘Ignoring the Men’: Female speech and male anxiety in
Cavendish’s The Female Academy and Ben Jonson’s Epicoene
243
ALEXANDRA BENNETT
Margaret Cavendish and the theatre of war
263
ROBIN DEROSA
‘What Have I On a Petticoat?’ The Convent of Pleasure
and the reality of performance
275
TANYA CAROLINE WOOD
The fall and rise of absolutism:
Margaret Cavendish’s manipulation of masque conventions in
The Claspe: Fantasmes Masque and The Blazing World
287
NEIL ANKERS
Margaret Cavendish and the nature of the individual
301
Contributors
317
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