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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Cibo e letteratura: l’epistolario commestibile di Margaret Cavendish [PDF]

, 2004
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, a 17th-century English author, wrote about her conflictual relationship with food in an interesting series of letters.
Silvani, Giovanna
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Margaret cavendish on passion, pleasure, and propriety

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 87-105, July 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I present three claims belonging to Cavendish's theory of the passions. First, positive and negative passions are species of love and hate. Second, love and hate involve pleasure and pain. Third, pleasure and pain are regular and irregular, where these notions are to be understood in teleological terms.
Daniel Whiting
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Beyond Bounds: Infinity in Cavendish’s Ontology

Journal of Modern Philosophy
Margaret Cavendish endorses the view that matter is actually infinite. This paper offers a systematic treatment of Cavendish’s views on infinity as developed in her later philosophical works (roughly, from Philosophical Letters onwards).
Laura Georgescu
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The Hero and the Sea: Sea Captains and their Discontents [PDF]

, 2017
Early modern sea captains were at the vanguard of the English response to secure what was believed to be the nation’s share of territory and trade, and their activities are central to written accounts of explorations and adventures. This article takes as
Jowitt, Claire
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Power, choice, exposure and fragility: Reframing fairness in equity for the corporate and insolvency sphere

International Insolvency Review, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 302-336, Summer 2025.
Abstract Where is the place of humanity in current corporate and insolvency frameworks and their theoretical underpinning? How can it be assured that the institutions that have been invented through human ingenuity and brilliance serves the collective human experience fully and equitably? Insolvency law has long been theoretically conceptualised on the
Jennifer L. L. Gant
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The Extravagance of Form in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World [PDF]

Caietele Echinox
With its inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of female authorship, Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666) tends to be read as a gendered variation on, or a parodic departure from, the Baconian prototype of the early modern politico ...
Carmen Borbély
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From critical theory to litigation strategy: Can intersectionality transform EU equality law?

European Law Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1-2, Page 22-41, February-June 2025.
Abstract While legal scholarship has consistently lamented the lack of recognition of intersectional discrimination in courts, the question of whether intersectionality features in lawyers' litigation strategies remains in a blind spot. Although a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship probes how legal mobilisation shapes the construction of EU ...
Raphaële Xenidis
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Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion

Journal of Modern Philosophy
Motion—and, in particular, local motion or change in location—plays a central role in Kenelm Digby’s natural philosophy and in his arguments for the immateriality of the soul.
Daniel Whiting
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Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Naturalistic Dualist [PDF]

, 2018
Elisabeth was the first of Descartes' interlocutors to press concerns about mind-body union and interaction, and the only one to receive a detailed reply, unsatisfactory though she found it.
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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