Margaret Cavendish

Informationen zum Autor Emma L. E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Chester College Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A glorious resurrection1. The 1650s: Genre and exile2. 'Sweet Honey of the Muses': Lucretian resonance in 'Poems, and Fancies'3. 'Heavens Library': Platonic paradigms and trial by genre4. Travellia's travails: Homeric motifs in 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity'5. Figures of speech: 'The Animall Parliament'6. Fictions of the mindConclusion: RehabilitationsAppendix A - 'A horrible precipice': Lucy Hutchinson's LucretiusBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Emma L. E. Rees, Emma Rees, Emma L. E. Rees, Emma Rees Rees
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9780719099328
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9932-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies