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Margaret Cavendish (Paperback)
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Margaret Cavendish (Paperback)
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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. 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. -- .
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