Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish

Gender, Science and Politics

Walters, Lisa

Cambridge University Press

08/2014

264

Dura

Inglês

9781107066434

15 a 20 dias

The first major study to link Cavendish's political theory to her natural science, her literary texts and her understandings of gender, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern literature, philosophy, science, politics and gender studies.
Introduction; 1. Redefining gender in Cavendish's theory of matter; 2. Margaret Cavendish's fusion of Renaissance science, magic and fairy lore; 3. The politics of free will in The Blazing World: Hobbes, Paracelsus and absolute rule; 4. Margaret Cavendish the republican? Revolution and gender in Cavendish's romances; Select bibliography; Index.
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