Princely Brave Woman Table of Contents
Contents for A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of Newcastle
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
Stephen Clucas
PART I : PROSE FICTIONS
2 Contracting Readers: ‘Margaret
Newcastle’ and the Rhetoric of Conjugality.
Kate Lilley
3 ‘How Great
is Thy Change’ : Familial Discourses in the Cavendish family.
Marion Wynne-Davies
4 “Of Mixt Natures”
: Questions of Genre in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World.
Nicole Pohl
5 Autobiography, Parody
and the Sociable Letters of Margaret Cavendish.
James Fitzmaurice
PART II : DRAMA
6 Writing for the Brain and Writing for the Boards:
the producibility of Margaret Cavendish’s dramatic texts
Judith Peacock
Making a spectacle: Margaret Cavendish
and the staging of the self
Rebecca D’Monté
7 “The Closet Opened”:
A reconstruction of ‘private’ space in the writings of Margaret Cavendish.
Julie Sanders
Part III : POETRY
8 Imagining
the Mind : Cavendish’s Hobbesian allegories
Jay Stevenson
9 Margaret Cavendish’s
Poems And Fancies and Thomas Harriot’s treatise on infinity
B. J. Sokol
10 A Well-Spun
Yarn: Margaret Cavendish and Homer’s Penelope
Emma Rees
Part IV : NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
11 Margaret
Cavendish and Henry More
Sarah Hutton
12 Variation, Irregularity
and Probabilism: Margaret Cavendish and Natural Philosophy as Rhetoric
Stephen Clucas
13 Margaret Cavendish,
the Doctors of Physick and Advice to the Sick
Susan Fitzmaurice
15 Paradigms and Politics: Hobbes and Cavendish Contrasted
Neil Ankers
Bibliography
Index
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