
Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas
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Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the 'late' early modern period, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century. This collection looks particularly at early modern women philosophers, playwrights and novelists, and considers how they engaged with ideas and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas, as well as literary innovations. This volume extends our understanding of the philosophical ideas and literary innovations of the early modern period and presents an exciting collection of women writers vigorously engaged with the intellectual debates that were occurring in the rapidly changing post-Restoration society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Philosophy and Science
chapter 1|16 pages
Mary Astell’s Machiavellian Moment? Politics and Feminism in Moderation truly Stated
chapter 2|16 pages
‘that you may [be] … as wise as Angels’: the Religious Foundations of Mary Astell’s Proposal for the Ladies, Parts I and II
chapter 3|14 pages
Disruptive Behaviour in the Making of Science: Cavendish and the Community of Seventeenth-Century Science
part |2 pages
Part II Women and Drama
chapter 5|14 pages
‘Yes, and’: Margaret Cavendish, the Passions and Hermaphrodite Agency
part |2 pages
Part III Politics and Intrigue