Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
- List Price: $50.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
- Publish date: 09/01/1998
Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the leading political, scientific, and philosophical ideas then current. More than most of her contemporaries, she grasped the consequences of the theories that dominated early modern science.
While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli examines Cavendish's literary career and its influences. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker. What emerges is an entirely new portrait of the liter intelligently engaged with the vital issues of her tumultuous time.
