Utopian Studies, January 1st, 2000
Anna Battigelli. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1998. xii + 180 pp. $32.00 (cloth).
ANNA BATTIGELLI'S intellectual biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-73), focuses on her commitment to "the life of the mind." Battigelli suggests that Cavendish constituted both her experience and her rhetorical stance in terms of a developing sense of herself as an exile "self consciously and willfully detached from a chaotic and at times frightening external world" (9). This seems close to readings like those of Sylvia Bowerbank, Janet Todd, a...
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