Authorial conquests : essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish

Authorial conquests : essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish / edited by Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz.

Other author/creator	Cottegnies, Line.
Other author/creator	Weitz, Nancy, 1961-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
Description	238 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674--Criticism and interpretation. Women and literature--England --History --17th century. Literary form--History --17th century. Poetics--History --17th century.

Contents	Triply bound : genre and the exilic self / Emma L.E. Rees -- Leviathan and the lady : Cavendish's critique of Hobbes in the Philosophical letters / Lisa T. Sarasohn -- Anecdotal and cabalistic forms in Observations upon experimental philosophy / Brandie R. Siegfried -- Margaret Cavendish's Life of William, Plutarch, and mixed genre / James Fitzmaurice -- The "native tongue" of the "authoress" : the mythical structure of Margaret Cavendish's autobiographical narrative / Line Cottegnies -- "Flattering division" : Margaret Cavendish's poetics of variety / Hero Chalmers -- Romantic fiction, moral anxiety, and social capital in Cavendish's "Assaulted and pursued chastity" / Nancy Weitz -- Science and satire : the Lucianic voice of Margaret Cavendish's Description of a new world called the blazing world / Sarah Hutton -- Fantastic realism : Margaret Cavendish and the possibilities of drama / Alexandra G. Bennett -- Playing games with gender and genre : the dramatic self-fashioning of Margaret Cavendish / Sara Mendelson -- Margaret Cavendish's drama : an aesthetic of fragmentation / Gisèle Venet.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2002152747
ISBN	0838639836 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR3605.N2 A94 2003	✔ Available	Place Hold