Authorial conquests
Subtitle: essays on genre in the writings of Margaret Cavendish
By: edited by Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz.
Contributors: Cottegnies, Line.; Weitz, Nancy, 1961-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison, [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Triply bound : genre and the exilic self / Emma L. E. Rees; title: Leviathan and the lady : Cavendish's critique of Hobbes in the philosophical letters / Lisa T. Sarasohn; title: Anecdotal and cabalistic forms in Observations upon experimental philosophy / Brandie R. Siegfried; title: Margaret Cavendish's Life of William, Plutarch, and mixed genre / James Fitzmaurice; title: The "native tongue" of the "authoress" : the mythical structure of Margaret Cavendish's autobiographical narrative / Line Cottegnies; title: Flattering division : Margaret Cavendish's poetics of variety / Hero Chalmers; title: Romantic fiction, moral anxiety, and social capital in Cavendish's "Assaulted and pursued chastity" / Nancy Weitz; title: Science and satire : the Lucianic voice of Margaret Cavendish's Description of a new world called the blazing world / Sarah Hutton; title: Fantastic realism : Margaret Cavendish and the possibilities of drama / Alexandra G. Bennett; title: Playing games with gender and genre : the dramatic self-fashioning of Margaret Cavendish / Sara Mendelson; title: Margaret Cavendish's drama : an aesthetic of fragmentation / Gisèle Venet.