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Margaret Cavendish's Epistemology

British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2009
This paper provides a systematic reconstruction of Cavendish's general epistemology and a characterization of the fundamental role of that theory in her natural philosophy. After reviewing the outlines of her natural philosophy, I describe her treatment of ‘exterior knowledge’, i.e. of perception in general and of sense perception in particular. I then
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Margaret Cavendish

This book is not available through ChesterRep. ; Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications. ; This book was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - English Language &
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Margaret Cavendish, Wife

2017
Throughout her work, Margaret Cavendish made much of her status as a wife, particularly as the wife of a peer. Rather than seeing this assertion as one of gendered dependence on her husband, or as vainglory, this chapter argues that Cavendish understood her status as a form of political office holding, both literally, as a rights-holding political ...
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Margaret Cavendish’s Anthropocene Worlds

New Literary History, 2016
Critical responses to Cavendish tend to emphasize her “oppositional” and “unsystematic” approaches to natural philosophy. This article argues that Cavendish was not only more systematic than critics have suggested, but also that her approach to understanding the natural world anticipated some of the central questions of the anthropocene age.
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Margaret Cavendish and patronage

Endeavour, 1999
Abstract Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) was the first woman to publish on scientific subjects in English. Gender limited Cavendish's membership in the emerging scientific community; to circumvent this restraint, Cavendish used patronage rituals to establish the legitimacy of her scientific role.
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The philosophical innovations of Margaret Cavendish

British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1999
Book synopsis: A maverick in her own time, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) was dismissed for three centuries as an eccentric crank. Yet the past few decades have witnessed a true renaissance in Cavendish studies, as scholars from diverse academic disciplines produce books, articles and theses on every aspect of her oeuvre ...
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Margaret Cavendish's Nonfeminist Natural Philosophy

Configurations, 2004
Until about twenty-five years ago, the standard assessment of Margaret Cavendish’s philosophical work was typified by Virginia Woolf’s remarks: “It was from the plain of complete ignorance, the untilled field of her own consciousness, that she proposed to erect a philosophic system that was to oust all others.
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Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)

2008
‘A World Made by Atoms’*
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Margaret Cavendish (1623–73)

2019
Abstract This chapter contains a selection of the private correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, as well as several epistles taken from her published works. It includes Cavendish’s letters to and from the Dutch diplomat Constantijn Huygens, the English philosopher Walter Charleton, the Cambridge Platonist Henry More,
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

1991
Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) was one of the few women in seventeenth-century England to write about natural philosophy.2 How was it possible for a woman to do philosophy at a time when women were excluded from university and academy? Had Margaret Cavendish not been of elevated rank, it is unlikely that she would have been a philosopher.
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