Title Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind

Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages) Series Studies in the English Renaissance Studies in the English Renaissance. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on Dates, Spelling, Editions, and Titles; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Writing Life; 2. A Strange Enchantment: ""The Wooing of the Mind"" at the Court of Henrietta Maria; 3. World and Mind in Conflict: Cavendish's Review of the New Atomism; 4. ""No House But My Mind"": Cavendish's Hobbesian Dilemma; 5. Rationalism versus Experimentalism: Cavendish's Satire of the Royal Society; 6. Conclusion: The Exiles of the Mind; Appendix A: Problems in the Dating of Margaret Lucas's Birth Appendix B: The Letters of Margaret Lucas Addressed to William CavendishNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; Z; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y Summary Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 -- Knowledge and learning SUBJECT Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 fast Subject Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Royalists -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century British -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Exiles -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Exiles in literature. Renaissance -- England LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. British Exiles Exiles in literature Intellectual life Learning and scholarship Renaissance Royalists Women and literature SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854 Subject England Europe Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813147529 0813147522

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