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- catalog abstract ""Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific and imaginative advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses." "The result of this struggle is a body of work of twenty-two opulent editions, some of which were extraordinary not only because they were penned by a woman, but because they were published in the 1650s when Cavendish and her husband were in exile on the continent. Persona non grata, Cavendish nonetheless managed to make her voice heard. Quite what that voice was saying becomes more evident in Emma Rees' study where literary genre is seen to be the key to an understanding of it." "Emma Rees examines how Cavendish engaged with the work of thinkers such as Lucretius, Plato, Homer and Harvey in an attempt to write her way out of the exile which threatened not only her intellectual pursuits but her very existence. What emerges is the image of an intelligent, audacious and intrepid early-modern woman whose tale will appeal to specialists and general readers alike."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13120489.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Emma Rees examines how Cavendish engaged with the work of thinkers such as Lucretius, Plato, Homer and Harvey in an attempt to write her way out of the exile which threatened not only her intellectual pursuits but her very existence. What emerges is the image of an intelligent, audacious and intrepid early-modern woman whose tale will appeal to specialists and general readers alike."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific and imaginative advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses."".
- catalog description ""The result of this struggle is a body of work of twenty-two opulent editions, some of which were extraordinary not only because they were penned by a woman, but because they were published in the 1650s when Cavendish and her husband were in exile on the continent. Persona non grata, Cavendish nonetheless managed to make her voice heard. Quite what that voice was saying becomes more evident in Emma Rees' study where literary genre is seen to be the key to an understanding of it."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: a glorious resurrection -- The 1650s: genre and exile -- 'Sweet Honey of the Muses': Lucretian resonance in Poems, and Fancies -- Heavens Library: Platonic paradigms and trial by genre -- Travellia's travails: Homeric motifs in Assaulted and Pursued Chastity -- Figures of speech: The Animall Parliament -- Fictions of the mind -- Conclusion: rehabilitations -- 'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius.".
- catalog extent "vi, 218 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Margaret Cavendish.".
- catalog identifier "0719060729".
- catalog isFormatOf "Margaret Cavendish.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,".
- catalog relation "Margaret Cavendish.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog subject "828/.409 22".
- catalog subject "British Europe History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Exiles in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literary form History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR3605.N2 Z86 2003".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Europe History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: a glorious resurrection -- The 1650s: genre and exile -- 'Sweet Honey of the Muses': Lucretian resonance in Poems, and Fancies -- Heavens Library: Platonic paradigms and trial by genre -- Travellia's travails: Homeric motifs in Assaulted and Pursued Chastity -- Figures of speech: The Animall Parliament -- Fictions of the mind -- Conclusion: rehabilitations -- 'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius.".
- catalog title "Margaret Cavendish : gender, genre, exile / Emma L.E. Rees.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".