Early modern Englishwomen testing ideas
By: Paul Salzman and Jo Wallwork
Contributors: Wallwork, Jo
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781409419693
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy and science; title: Mary Astell's Machiavellian moment: politics and feminism in Moderation truly stated / Jacqueline Broad; title: "that you may [be]" as wise as angels: the religious foundations of Mary Astell's Proposal for the ladies, pts. 1 and 2 / Michal Michelson; title: Disruptive behaviour in the making of science: Cavendish and the community of seventeenth-century science / Jo Wallwork; title: The magnetic attraction of Margaret Cavendish and Walter Charleton / L.E. Semler; title: Women and drama; title: "Yes, and-": Margaret Cavendish, the passions, and hermaphrodite agency / Alexandra G. Bennett; title: Virginian culture and experimental genre in Aphra Behn's The widow ranter / David McInnis; title: Politics and intrigue; title: "La femme forte": Katherine Philips and the politics of her Dublin writings, 1662-1663 / Rosalinde Schut; title: Narrative person, perspective, and voice in Eliza Haywood's The adventures of Eovaai / Joanna Fowler.