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Margaret Cavendish, Poems and Fancies

When doing the search for Margaret Cavendish, there was a fair amount of results, in the MLA database.   No matter what the search parameters were, all of the results where the same (there were 235 results total).  When searching for the actual work “Poems and Fancies” in the MLA database, there were no results with the WorldCat search also.  When using WorldCat there were more results than with MLA (401).  The search parameter that provided the most information was in WorldCat when Margaret Cavendish was used as the key word (721 results).  Many of the results that were found when using Margaret Cavendish as the keyword were her own works.  Also, many of the results were about others that were probably related to Cavendish (because they had the same name).

            The articles that I picked were chosen because by the titles they seemed as if they might provide some information considering that much of what I found did not seem relevant to Cavendish and her work.  Also, some articles that did seem interesting were not printed in the last fifteen years.  Some of these articles and books are not accessible through the online library but seems like they may be of good use. 

 

 

Anderson, Misty G.  “Tactile Places: Materializing Desire in Margaret       Cavendish and Jane Baker.”  Textual Practice  13.2 (1999): 329 – 352.

Batigelli, Anna.  Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 

Boyle, Deborah. “Fame, Virtue, and Government: Margaret Cavendish on Ethics and Politics.”  Journal of the History of Ideas. 67.2  (2006): 251 – 289.

Boyle, Deborah.  “Margaret Cavendish's Nonfeminist Natural Philosophy” Configuration, A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology 12.2 (2004): 195 – 227.

Callaghan, Dympna. A feminist companion to Shakespeare. Malden Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Chalmers, Hero. “'Flattering Division': Margaret Cavendish's Poetics of Variety” Authorial      Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish.  Madison; London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; Associated UP; 2003: 238.

Donawerth, Jane. Rhetorical Theory by women before 1900.  Lanham: Roman and Littlefield, 2002. 

Fitzmaurice, James. Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Reading Aloud in Seventeenth-Century England.   Burlington: Ashgate, 2006.

Fitzmaurice, James. Major Women writers of seventeenth century England.  Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Graham, Elspeth.  Intersubjectivity, Intertextuality, and Form in the Self-Writings of      Margaret Cavendish.”  Women and Gender in Early Modern World. England: Ashgate, 2007.

Masten, Jeffrey.  “Margaret Cavendish, Paper, Performance, ‘Social Virginity.’”  ModernLanguage  Quarterly 65.1 (2004): 49 – 68.

Masten, Jeffrey.  Textual Intercourse: collaboration, authorship and sexuality in Renaissance drama. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Miller, Jacqueline T. Ladies of the oddest Passion: Early Modern Women and the Art of        Discretion.”  Modern Philology  (2006) 453 – 473.

Olbricht, Erika Mae.  “Using Sex: Margaret Cavendish’s The Lady Contemplation and the Authorial Fantasy of Class Permanence.”  Pacific Coast Philosophy.  2003; 38: 77-98.

Rees, Emma L. E.  Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile.  Manchester, England: Manchester UP; 2003 .

Scott-Douglass, Amy.  “Self-Crowned Laureatess:  Towards a Critical Revaluation of Margaret Cavendish’s Prefaces.”  Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies  9.1 (2000): 27-49.

Starr, G. Gabrielle.  “Cavendish, Aesthetics, and the Anti-Platonic Line.”  Eighteenth Century Studies  39.3 (2006): 295 – 308.

Suzuki, Mihoko.  “Margaret Cavendish and the female Satirist.”  SEL 37 (1996): 484 – 500.

Smith, Hilda, Carroll, Berenice. Women’s Political Social Thought: an anthology.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000

Wertheimer, Molly M.  Listening to their voices: the rhetorical activities of historical women.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.