MARGARET CAVENDISH

It is often thought that the numerous contradictory perspectives in Margaret Cavendish's writings demonstrate her inability to recon cile her feminism with her conservative, royalist politics. In this book Lisa Walters challenges this view and demonstrates that Cav endish's ideas more closely resemble republican thought, and that her methodology is the foundation for subversive political, scient ific and gender theories. With an interdisciplinary focus Walters closely examines Cavendish's work and its context, providing the r eader wi...[Read more]