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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