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Introduction

  • Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning
  • Gender and Serious Play
  • Women and the New Science
  • Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Brief Chronology

    Part I: Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning

  • A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life (1656)
  • Selections from CCXI Sociable Letters (1664)
  • Preface to Orations of Divers Sorts (1662)
  • Letter of Mary Evelyn to Ralph Bohun (c.1667)
  • Part II: Gender and Serious Play

  • The Convent of Pleasure (1668)
  • Preface to the Reader, The Worlds Olio (1655)
  • Female Orations, from Orations of Divers Sorts (1662)
  • Part III: Women and the New Science

  • The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666)
  • Selections from Poems and Fancies (1635)
  • Francis Bacon, New Atlantis (1627)
  • Selections from Letters and Poems in Honour of … Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1676)
  • Aphra Behn, Preface to her translation of Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes (1688)
  • Works Cited and Select Bibliography

    About the Author

    Sylvia Bowerbank holds a joint apointment in the Arts and Science Programme and the English Department at McMaster University.

    Sara Mendelson is a historian who teaches in the Arts and Science Programme at McMaster University.

    Reviews

    “Paper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. The book also sets the work in context by printing extracts from Francis Bacon, Mary Evelyn, and Aphra Behn. Cavendish scholars will be very pleased by the appearance of this highly useful collection.” — James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University“Cavendish always hoped that a future audience might read her texts—the ‘paper bodies’ that remained after her death—more attentively than had her contemporaries. This anthology facilitates that readership. Its lucid introduction and careful selection of texts and contexts adumbrate key topics in Cavendish studies, and its potential to enrich courses on early modern literature, the history of science, and gender studies is great.” — Anna Battigelli, SUNY, Plattsburgh

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