Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish
Author: Emma L. E. Rees
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719060724

Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.

A Princely Brave Woman

A Princely Brave Woman
Author: Stephen Clucas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351755668

This title was first published in 2003. This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish's output - which included poetry, drama, prose fictions, orations, and natural philosophy - these essays re-assess Cavendish's place in seventeenth- century literature and philosophy. Whilst approaching Cavendish's work from a range of critical (and disciplinary) perspectives, the authors of these essays are united in their commitment to recovering her writings from their frequent characterisation as "eccentric" or "idiosyncratic", and aim to present her work as historically legible within the cultural contexts in which they were written. The "Mad Madge" of literary legend and tradition is re-written as a bold, innovative and experimental creator of a female authorial voice, and as a thinker vitally in contact with the intellectual currents of her age.

Renaissance Drama 32

Renaissance Drama 32
Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-07-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0810119560

Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance.

Family Politics in Early Modern Literature

Family Politics in Early Modern Literature
Author: Hannah Crawforth
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137511443

This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis – birth and death, maturation, marriage – moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family ‘politics’ become most apparent.