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.
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.
Emma L. E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Chester College
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Acknowledgements Introduction: A glorious resurrection 1. The 1650s: Genre and exile 2. 'Sweet Honey of the Muses': Lucretian resonance in 'Poems, and Fancies' 3. 'Heavens Library': Platonic paradigms and trial by genre 4. Travellia's travails: Homeric motifs in 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' 5. Figures of speech: 'The Animall Parliament' 6. Fictions of the mind Conclusion: Rehabilitations Appendix A - 'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius Bibliography
Acknowledgements Introduction: A glorious resurrection 1. The 1650s: Genre and exile 2. 'Sweet Honey of the Muses': Lucretian resonance in 'Poems, and Fancies' 3. 'Heavens Library': Platonic paradigms and trial by genre 4. Travellia's travails: Homeric motifs in 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' 5. Figures of speech: 'The Animall Parliament' 6. Fictions of the mind Conclusion: Rehabilitations Appendix A - 'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius Bibliography
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