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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Margaret Cavendish"”.
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Margaret Cavendish on Inconceivability
… unacknowledged textual puzzle that arises from Margaret Cavendish's use of inconceivability to make claims about what is metaphysically impossible. On the one hand, Cavendish asserts that objects or events she cannot conceive of are impossible in nature (i.e., inconceivability entails …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Although the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish is eclectic and uncustomary, it offers an important critique of contemporary scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural …
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Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish
… in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.</p>
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Cabalas and Cabals in Restoration Popular Literature
… conflicted environment of these unstable years. Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn seize upon the power and flexibility these words and their associations afford to turn them into generative devices to create and seize authority for themselves and for their opinions. In this process, Cavendish and …
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A Contextual Analysis of Female Education and Discursive Power in Margaret Cavendish's Dramas, the Female Academy and Youths Glory and Deaths Banquet
… sacrificing a complete, contextual portrait of Margaret Cavendish in order to claim her as a feminist, have failed to appreciate the ambiguous, female response to seventeenth-century, male imposed gender constraints demonstrated in her work. Self-conscious of her own subjugation to male sanction …
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Margaret Cavendish's Exploration of Consciousness in Her Writings
… the largely autodidactic English intellectual Margaret Cavendish is fascinated by knowledge and how to secure for herself a place in the micro- as well as macrocosmic community of letters. In particular, Cavendish holds an abiding interest in what we now call "consciousness" which she …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… and wider social groupings in the work of Margaret Cavendish, Sophie de Grouchy, Gabrielle Suchon, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, Suchon’s practical ethics, Wollstonecraft’s polemical …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
… at least some women writers, Aemelia Lanyer, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips in particular, participated in a more competitive narrative; a narrative which privileged such categories as nobility, status, and rank. The nascent discourse of class division and distinction plays a …
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Out Of Compass: English Women’s Writing And The Cultures Of Travel, 1604-1680
… writings of Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and a traveling Quaker minister, Alice Curwen, to demonstrate that while women were certainly aware of the social stigma that could be attached to their travels, they also understood that women’s travel was necessary to social, …
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No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
… proved as powerful then as it does now. For Margaret Cavendish, the poet occupies the supplemental role that "recreate[s] the mind" once it grows tired of the "serious" natural philosophical studies. After the Restoration, then, the important role of the poetic imagination would go largely …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… and social hierarchies. The first study is of Margaret Cavendish, whose fantastical travelogue Blazing World and its companion treatise on Experimental Natural Philosophy (1668) articulate the perceived link between epistemic and political revolution in a manner that most eighteenth-century …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… are represented by the literary activities of Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. While Cavendish exploits her position as noblewoman and royalist exile to praise the virtues of the contemplative life, she also insists on publication as a fitting proof of virtue for male and female authors …
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Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1811–43: Richard Carlile and Infidel Materialism
… the seventeenth-century plenist materialism of Margaret Cavendish. Carlile’s gaseous principle provided continuity at every scale of material existence, from the motions of the planets to the nature of life and thought. The claimed materiality of mind was of particular importance, as it drove …
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“She erected schools, and founded several societies”: Reimagining Margaret Cavendish’s Visit to The Royal Society
In academic discourse, Margaret Cavendish’s attendance at a meeting of the Royal Society on May 30, 1667 is often cited as proof that she was deeply hostile towards early scientific experimentalism. While some scholars have noted the disdain with which the Society supposedly viewed Cavendish, …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… a male dominant, humanist society. Writers like Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Mary Astell engaged in unprecedented textual strategies that subverted their fixed and often challenged roles. Pamphlets affected the Early Modern landscape with liturgical language that would provide a dialogic …
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Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671
Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671 is a study of the imaginative handling of suffering in Renaissance England literature. Beginning with the Reformed Protestant hermeneutics detailing the redemptive qualities of pain with John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs in 1570, the thesis goes on to …