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Etudes Epistémè, 2006 Ignoring the satire of learned women, a topos of classical drama at the end of the 17th century, Magaret Cavendish published several treatises of natural philosophy between 1653 and 1668. This article aims at reversing the topos to show how a woman could
Sandrine Parageau
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Etudes Epistémè, 2008 In a pioneering study of 1934 Thomas Franklin Mayo was among the first to suggest the idea of an Epicurean « Renaissance » in England from the year 1650 onwards.
Line Cottegnies
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Etudes Epistémè, 2008 As Francis Bacon’s texts show, the use of analogy in the sciences was already both contested and recognized as potentially useful in the XVIIth century.
Sandrine Parageau
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Acta Poética, 2023 Pese a los prejuicios en contra de su participación en la vida intelectual, varias mujeres del siglo XVII intervinieron activamente en las discusiones en torno a la “Nueva Ciencia”.
Gabriela Villanueva Noriega
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Politique et imagination féminine dans Natures Pictures de Margaret Cavendish (1656)
Etudes Epistémè, 2006 In 1656, Margaret Cavendish publishes a puzzling book entitled Natures Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencils to the Life, which gathers in eleven books numerous prefaces, poetry in verse and prose, fables as well as novellas, romances and lastly her own ...
Claire Boulard-Jouslin
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Rewrite history, make history. Woman as subject in Christine de Pizan and Margaret Cavendish
Scienza & Politica, 2016 In The City of Ladies and Bell in Campo, Christine de Pizan and Margaret Cavendish imagine women’s participation to war as a metaphor of the sexual conflict that they must fight in order to conquer their visibility in history.
Paola Rudan
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Review of Deborah Boyle on Margaret Cavendish
ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2020 A review of Deborah Boyle's book The Well-Ordered Universe (2018), by Dustin D. Stewart.
Dustin Stewart
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"Many a good, old honest woman hath been condemned innocently": Cavendish and Glanvill on witchcraft [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualMargaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill disagreed over the reality of witchcraft. In her assessment of the exchange between the two, Jacqueline Broad finds that Cavendish was the "voice of scientific reason", not only because of her disbelief in ...
Vuletić Miloš
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La lectrice à l’œuvre dans les fictions scientifiques
Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2023 En 1666, Margaret Cavendish fait paraître deux éditions d’un même texte de fiction, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, respectivement adressées à un lectorat masculin et féminin. Cette double adresse se double d’un geste éditorial
Marie Gall
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Point, counterpoint, needlepoint: the tapestry in Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy [PDF]
, 2013 This essay explores the mention of a set of wall-hangings showing the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar in Margaret Cavendish’s play The Unnatural Tragedy. It relates this to the prominence of actual tapestries and other hangings in the Cavendish family
Hopkins, Lisa
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