Stephen Clucas
Ashgate
Hardback
302
2003
This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish's output - which included poetry drama prose fictions orations and natural philosophy-these essays re-assess Cavendish's place in seventeenth-century literature and philosophy.