Margaret Cavendish Bibliography

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Adachi, Mami. "Creating the Female Self: Margaret Cavendish's Authorial Voice and Fictional Selves," Hot Questrists after the English Renaissance: Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, eds. Yasunari Takahashi and Yasuo Tamaizumi, New York, NY: AMS, pp. 69-88. 

Anderson, Misty G. "Tactile Places: Materializing Desire in Margaret Cavendish and Jane Barker." Textual Practice, vol. 13, no 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 329-52. 

Baird-Badinger, Amber.  "The State of Letters: Meaty Close Readings" [Review article: discusses recent publications focusing on Margaret Cavendish], In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary
Criticism, Volume 10, no. 2,  (September 2001), pp 209-22.

Barnes, Diana. "The Restoration of Royalist Form in Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters'," Meridian, vol. 18, no. 1 (2001), 201-214.  

Ballister, Roz.  "Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips," in Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1580 - 1690, eds. Gordon McMullan, Palgrave, 2001.

Battigelli, Anna. "Between the Glass and the Hand: The Eye in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in The Early Modern Era, Vol. 2 (1996), pp. 25 - 38.

____________.  Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, UP of Kentucky, 1998.  

____________. "Political Thought/Political Action: Margaret Cavendish's Hobbesian Dilemma," in Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, eds. Hilda Smith, and Carole Pateman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 40 - 55.

Beal, Peter.  In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth Century England,  Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1998 [chapter on Katherine Philips deals with Cavendish.]  

Bertuol, Roberto. "The Square Circle of Margaret Cavendish: the 17th-century conceptions of mind by means of mathematics," Language and Literature, vol. 10, no. 1 (February 2001), pp. 21 - 39.  

Bonin, Erin Lang. "Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Utopias and the Politics of Gender." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 , vol. 40, no. 2 (spring 2000), pp. 339 - 54. 

Botonaki, Effie. "Marching on the Catwalk and Marketing the Self: Margaret Cavendish's Autobiography," a/b: Auto/Biography Studies , vol. 13, no. 2 (1998), pp. 159 - 181. 

Brewer, Lisa K. "Encroaching upon the Male Perogative: Margaret Cavendish and the Construction of a Female Author." Kentucky Philological Review, 15 (2001), pp. 15-21.  

Broad, Jacqueline. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 [chapter on Cavendish].Burroughs, Catherine. "'Hymen's Monkey Love:' The Concealed Fancies and Female Sexual Initiation." Theatre Journal, vol. 51, no. 1 (March 1999), pp. 21 - 31. Also available at http://muse.jhu.edu/. 

Burgess, Irene. "Recent Studies in Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1674); William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676); Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton (1627-1663); and Jane Cavendish Cheyne (1622-1669)." English Literary Renaissance 32(3): 452-73

Campbell, Mary Baine. Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999 [chapter on "Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds"]. 

Chalmers, Hero. "The Politics of Feminine Retreat in Margaret Cavendish's The Female Academy and The Convent of Pleasure." Women's Writing , vol. 6, no.1 (1999), pp. 81-94. 

Cerasano, S.P. and Marion Wynne-Davies, Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama : Criticism, History, and Performance, 1594-1998, London; New York : Routledge, 1998.  

Claessen, Constance. The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination, New York: Routledge, 1998. 234 pp. [Jacob Boehme; Charles Fourier; Ste. Benoite de Notre Dame du Laus; Margaret Cavendish, &c.]  

Cottegnies, Line.  "Les 'Lettres' dans l'education des dames anglaises vers le milieu du XVIIe siecle: le cas de Margaret Cavendish," in L'Education des Femmes en Europe et en Amerique du Nord de la Renaissance a 1848, ed. Guyonne Leduc, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997, pp. 111 - 22.  

Cottegines, Line..  "Margaret Cavendish and Cyrano de Bergerac: A Libertine Subtext for Cavendish's Blazing World (1666)?" BSEAA XVII-XVIII (Bulletin de la societe d'etudes anglo-americanes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles), vo. 54, June, 2002, pp. 165 - 186.

_____________. "Margaret Cavendish ou l'exil intérieur," postface in "Le Monde glorieux," translation of The Blazing World (translated and annotated by L. Cottegnies), Paris: José Corti, 1999, pp. 259 - 297.  

_____________. "Margaret Cavendish et 'l'autobiographie' au XVIIe siècle : topographie d'un discours paradoxal," in L'Autobiographie littéraire en Angleterre (XVIIe-XXe siècles): Géographies du soi, ed. Frédéric Regard, Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2000, pp. 35 - 56.  

Dash, Irene G. "Single-sex retreats in two early modern dramas: Love's Labor's Lost and The Convent of Pleasure,"  Shakespeare Quarterly (Teaching Judith Shakespeare), vol. 47 (winter 1996), pp. 387ff. 

D'Monte, Rebecca,  "Mirroring Female Power: Separatist Spaces in the Plays of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle," in Female Communities, 1600 - 1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities, eds., Rebecca D'Monte and Nicole Pole, St. Martin's Press in association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2000.

Donawerth, Jane.  "Conversation and the Boundaries of Public Discourse in Rhetorical  Theory by Renaissance Women," Rhetorica , vol. 16 (1998), pp. 181-99.  

Findlen, Paula. "Ideas in the mind: Gender and knowledge in the seventeenth century."
Hypatia, vol. 17 (Winter 2002) Start Page:  183.

Findlay, Alison, Gweno Williams, and Stephanie J. Hodgson-Wright. "'The Play Is Ready To be Acted': Women and Dramatic Production, 1570-1670," Women's Writing, vol. 6, no. 1 (1999), pp. 29 - 48. 

____________. "Playing the 'Scene Self': Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The Concealed Fancies," in Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage, eds. Vivana Comensoli and Anne Russell,  Urbana U of Illinois P, 1999, pp.154 - 76.

Fitzmaurice, James. "The Cavendishes, the Evelyns, and Teasing in Verse and Prose," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, vols. 16 and 17 (1995 - 1996), pp. 161 - 186.  

________________.  "The Life and Literary Reputation of Margaret Cavendish," Quidditas: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, vol. 20 (1999), pp. 55 - 74.

Fitzmaurice, Susan. "Sociable Letters, Acts of Advice, and Medical Counsel," in Susan Fitzmaurice's The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2002, pp. 89 - 127.

________________.  "Tentativeness and insistence in the expression of politeness in Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters," Language and Literature vol. 9,  (February 2000), 7 - 24.  

Fowler, Ellayne. "Margaret Cavendish and the ideal commonwealth", Utopian Studies, vol. 7, (winter 1996),  pp. 38ff.  

Fulton, Alice. "Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle," in Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry, St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1999, pp. 85-124.  

Gardner, Judith Kegan. "'Singularity of Self': Cavendish's True Relation, Narcissism, and the Gendering of Individualism," The Restoration , vol. 21 (1997).  

Hackett, Helen.  Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 [epilogue on the later seventeenth century, in particular, devotes a good deal of space to Cavendish].

Harris, Frances. "Living in the Neighbourhood of Science. Mary Evelyn Margaret Cavendish and the Greshamites," in Women, Science and Medicine: 1500-1700, eds., Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton, Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1997.  

Hintz, Carrie. "'But one opinion': fear of dissent in Cavendish's New Blazing World," Utopian Texts by Early Modern Women, Utopian Studies vol. 7 (winter 1996), pp. 25ff.   

Hobby, Elaine. "Usurping authority over the man: women's writing 1630-1689," in An Introduction to Women's Writing, ed. Marion Shaw, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997.  

Hobby, Elaine & Bill Overton. "'There is not space for Margaret Cavendish and Dryden': higher education teaching 1640-1700." Women's Writing, vo. 1, no.  3 (1994), pp. 257 - 276.

Holmesland, Oddvar.  "Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World: Natural Art and the Body Politic" Studies in Philology, vol., 96 (1999), pp.  457 - 479.  

Hopkins, Lisa.  "Play Houses: Drama at Welbeck and Bolsover," Early Theatre, vol. 2 (1999), pp. 25 - 44.  

Hutton, Sarah. "Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish and Seventeenth Century Scientific Thought," in Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700 , eds. Lynette Hunter & Sara Hutton, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997 pp. 218 - 234.  

___________.  "In Dialogue with Thomas Hobbes: Margaret Cavendish's Naturral Philosophy," Women's Writing, vol. 4 (1997), 421 - 432.

Ingram, Randall. "First Words and Second Thoughts: Margaret Cavendish, Humphrey Mosley, and 'the Book,'" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 30, no.1 (2000), pp. 101 - 124.   

Iyengar, Sujata. "Royalist, Romancer, Racialist: Rank, Race and Gender in the Science and Fiction of Margaret Cavendish," ELH, vol. 69, no. 3 (fall, 2002), pp. 649 - 72. Jagodzinski, Cecile M. Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth-Century England. University Press of Virginia, 1999.   

James, Susan.  "The Innovations of Margaret Cavendish," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 2 (1999), PP. 219 - 244.

Jankowski, Theodora A. "Pure Resistance: Queer(y)ing Virginity in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure," Shakespeare Studies, vol. 26 (1998), pp. 218 - 55.  Aso available at http://www.galegroup.com/.  

Kahn, Victoria.  "Margaret Cavendish and the romance of contract." Renaissance Quarterly vol. 50, no. 2 (summer 1997), pp. 526 - 566.  

Keller, Eve. "Producing Petty Gods: Margaret Cavendish's Critique of Experimental Science." ELH - English Literary History , vol. 64, no. 2 (summer 1997), pp. 447 - 71, also available at http://www.jstor.org/.  

Kegl, Rosemary. "'The World I have made': Margaret Cavendish, feminism and The Blazing World"  in Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects, eds. Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dympna Callaghan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 119 - 41.  

Keller, Eve. "Producing petty gods: Margaret Cavendish's critique of experimental science." ELH - English Literary History , vol. 64, no. 2 (summer 1997), pp.  447 - 72.  Also available at http://www.jstor.org/.

Kerr, Heather. "Margaret Cavendish and Queer Literary Subjectivity," Meridian, vol. 18, no. 1 (2001), pp. 215  - 236. 

Landry, Donna. "Green Languages? Women Poets as Naturalists in 1653 and 1807," Forging Connections: Women's Poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism. eds, Anne K. Mellor, Anne K., Felicity Nussbaum, and and Jonathan F. S. Post, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2002, pp. 39-61.

Leduc, Guyonne. "Women's Education in Margaret Cavendish's plays," Cercles, 4 (2002), pp 16 - 38. Available online: http://www.cercles.com/n4/leduc.pdf

Leslie, Marina. "Evading Rape and Embracing Empire in Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity,'" in Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, eds., Marina Leslie and Kathleen Coyne Kelly, U of Delaware Press, 1999.  

__________, Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History , Cornell University Press, 1998 [chapter on "Revisiting Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World].  

Lewis,  E.  "The Legacy of Margaret Cavendish," Persepectives on Science, vol. 9, pt. 3 (2001), pp. 341 - 365.

Low, Jennifer. "Surface and Interiority Self-Creation in Margaret Cavendish's The Claspe." Philological Quarterly, vol. 77, no  2 (spring 1998), pp. 149-69.  Also available at http://www.galegroup.com/. 

Malcolmson, Christina "Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies in Early Modern England," in Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700, eds. Malcolmson and Suzuki, Palgrave, 2002, pp. 15 - 35 [Malcolmson argues that William brought back the Harley MS of Pizan from France, so that Margaret obviously had access to it and to Pizan's works].

Masten, Jeffrey. Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 [chapter: "Mistris corrivall: Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Production"].  

Miller, Steven Max. "Margaret Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 131. Seventeenth-century British nondramatic poets, third series, Gale Research, 1993.  

Moore, Judith. "Twentieth-Century Feminism and Seventeenth-Century Science: Margaret Cavendish in Opposing Contexts," Restoration, vol. 26, pt. 1 (spring, 2002), pp. 1 - 14.

Moreman, Sarah E.  "Learning Their Language: Cavendish's Construction of an Empowering Vitalistic Atomism" Explorations in Renaissance Culture, vol. 23 (1997), pp. 129 - 144.  

Nate, Richard. "'Plain and Vulgarly Express'd': Margaret Cavendish and the Discourse of the New Science." Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 19:4 (2001 Autumn), pp. 403-17.

Nelson, Holly Faith. "'Worms in the Dull Earth of Ignorance': Zoosemiotics and Sexual Politics in the Works of Margaret Cavendish." English Language Notes, vol. 39, no. 4 (June, 2002), pp. 12 - 24.

O'neill, Eileen.  "Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and Their Fate in History, in Philosophy in a Feminist Voice ed. Janet Kourany, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

___________.   "Margaret Lucas Cavendish," in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

___________.  "Women Cartesians, 'Feminine Philosophy,' and Historical Exclusion," in Feminist Interpretations of Rene Descartes, ed. Susan Bordo, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Price, Bronwe.  "Feminine Modes of Knowing and Scientific Enquiry: Margaret Cavendish's Poetry as Case Study," in Women and Literature in Britain, 1500 - 1700,  ed. Helen Wilcox, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.17 - 139.

____________. "Journeys beyond Frontiers: Knowledge, Subjectivity and Outer Space in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666)," in The Arts of 17th-Century Science: Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture, eds. Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt, Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 127-45.

Raber, Karen J.  Dramatic Difference : Gender, Class, And Genre In The Early Modern Closet Drama, Newark [Del.]: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2001.

____________. "'Our Wits Joined as in Matrimony': Margaret Cavendish's Plays and the Drama of Authority," English Literary Renaissance e, vol. 28, no. 3 (autumn 1998 ), pp. 464 - 93.

____________.  "Warrior Women in the Plays of Cavendish and Killigrew," SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 , vol. 40, no. 3 (summer 2000), 413-33. 

Raylor, Timothy. "Newcastle's Ghosts: Robert Payne, Ben Jonson, and the 'Cavendish Circle,'" in Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England, eds. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000, pp. 92 - 114.

_____________. "'Pleasure reconciled to virtue': William Cavendish, Ben Jonson, and the decorative scheme of Bolsover-Castle' (Exploring patriarchal authority and Herculean passions in the iconography of stately homes of 17th-century England), Renaissance Quarterly, 52, no. 2 (summer 1999), pp. 402 - 439. 

Rosenthal, Laura J.  Playwrights and plagiarists in early modern England : gender, authorship, literary property, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Chapter: "Authoress of a Whole World": The Duchess of Newcastle and imaginary property."  

Salzman, Paul. "Narrative Contexts," in Bronwen Price and Simon Wortham, eds., Bacon's New Atlantis, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Sarasohn, Lisa. "Margaret Cavendish and Patronage," Endeavour (Oxford, England) vol. 23. no. 3 (1999), pp. 130 - 2. 

Scott-Douglass, Amy. "Self-Crowned Laureatess: Towards a Critical Revaluation of Margaret Cavendish's Prefaces." Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (2000), pp. 27-49.  

Shanahan, John. "The Indecorous Virtuoso: Margaret Cavendish's Experimental Spaces," Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35:2 (Summer 2002).

Shaver, Anne. "Agency and Marriage in the Fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle," ed., Sigrid King, Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts, Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999, pp. 177 - 90. 

__________. "Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle," in  Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers, eds., Susanne  Woods and Margaret P. Hannay,  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000, pp. 195 - 203. 

Sheehan, Richard Johnson and Denise Tillery. "Margaret Cavendish, Natural Philosopher" Eighteenth-Century Women, vol. 1 (2000), pp. 1 - 18.  

Smith, Hilda.  "'A General War amongst the Men...But None amongst the Women': Political Differences between Margaret and William Cavendish," Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays Presented to Lois Green Schwoerer, ed. by Howard Nenner, Rochester: Univ of Rochester Press, 1997, pp. 143-160.

Spiller, Elizabeth. "Reading Through Galileo's Telescope: Margaret Cavendish and the Experience of Reading," Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 53, no.1 (spring 2000), pp.192 - 221.  

Stark, John Ryan.  "Margaret Cavendish and Composition Style," Rhetoric Review, vol. 17, 1999, pp. 264 - 81. 

Strauss, Elizabeth.  "Ogranisumus versus Machine: Margaret Cavendihs' Kritik am mechanistischen Naturmodell," in  Das Sichtbare Denken Modelle und  Modellhaftigkeit in der Philosophie und den Wissenshaften, ed., JF Mass, Amsterdam: Rodope, 1993.

Stevenson, J. "The Mechinist-Vitalist Soul of Margaret Cavendish," Studies In English Literature 500-1900 vol. 36, no. 3 (summer 1996), pp. 527 - 543.  

Strass, Elizabeth.  Die Arithmetik der Leidenschaften: Margaret Cavendish's Naturphilosophie, Stuttgart: Metzler-Verlag, 1999.  

Straznicky, M. "Reading the Stage, Margaret Cavendish and Commonwealth Closet Drama," Criticism - A Quarterly For Literature And The Arts, vol. 37, no. 3 (summer 1995), pp. 355 - 390. 

Sutherland, Christine.  "Aspiring to the Rhetorical Tradition: A Study of Margaret Cavendish," in Molly Meijer Wertheimer, ed.,  Listening to  Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women, Columbia: Univ.  of South Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 255 - 71. 

Suzuki, Mihoko.  "The Essay Form as Critique: Reading Cavendish's The World's Olio Through Mongaigne and Bacon (and Adorno), Prose Studies, vol. 22 (December 1999), pp. 1 - 16.  

Tomlinson, Sophie Eliza. "Too Theatrical? Female Subjectivity in Caroline and Interregnum Drama," Women's Writing, vol. 6, no. 1 (1999), pp. 65 - 79.

Wallwork, Jo.  "Margaret Cavendish's Response to Hooke's Micrographia," Meridian, vol. 18, no. 1 (2001) ,pp. 191 - 200.  

Whitaker, Katie. Mad Madge, The Extraordinary Life of Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen, Basic Books, September 2002.

Wiseman, Susan. "Margaret Cavendish among the Prophets Performance Ideologies and Gender in and after the English Civil War," Women's Writing , vol. 6, no. 1 (1999),  pp. 95 - 111.

______________. "Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Phillips," in Gordon McMullan, ed., Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1580-1690, Palgrave, 2001. 

______________.  Drama and Politics in the English Civil War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998,   pp. 91 - 114.

Wood, Tanya Caroline. "Borrowing Ralegh's Mantle: William Cavendish's Address 'To the Lady Newcastle, on Her Booke of Poems'." Notes and Queries, vol. 47 (June, 2000), pp. 183 - 85.

Worsley, Lucy and Tom Addyman. "Riding Houses and Horses: William Cavendish's
Architecture for the Art of Horsemanship," Architectural History, volume 45 (2002), pp.194 - 229.

Recent Editions

The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, ed., Leigh Tillman Partington, Women Writers Resource Project at the Lewis H. Beck Center, Emory University.  Website: http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html

Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions, ed. Alexandra G. Bennett, Calgary, Broadview Press, 2002.

The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays, ed., Anne Shaver, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 

Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 , ed. Paul Salzman, Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2000.  Contains both parts of Bell in Campo, the preface to Observations , three poems, and "The Matrimonial Agreement" from Nature's Pictures . 

Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, ed. Eileen O'Neill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, eds., Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson, Calgary: Broadview Press, 1999. 

The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland, ed. Tom Cain (Manchester UP, 2001).  See  pp. 292, 316-18 for poetry on the subject of Margaret Cavendish.

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