Margaret Cavendish

Introduction: The intellectual span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters; History of Science: 1. Margaret Cavendish: Natural philosopher and feminist Carolyn Merchant; 2. Margaret Cavendish thinks about sex Lisa T. Sarasohn; 3. Margaret Cavendish and the rhetoric and aesthetics of the microscopic image in seventeenth-century England Stephen Clucas; 4. Margaret Cavendish and the nature of infinity Sara Mendelson; Philosophy: 5. Cavendish's philosophy of the passions: Theory and practice Jacqueline Broad and Maks Sipowicz; 6. Cavendish, Philosophical Letters, and the Plenum David Cunning; 7. Cavendish's philosophical genres in Philosophical and Physical Opinions and the question of hierarchy Karen Detlefsen; Literature: 8. Of webs and wonder: The atomic vitalism of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies Brandie R. Siegfried; 9. The Blazing World: Literary history, genre, and the inner world Mary Baine Campbel; 10. Margaret Cavendish's Prudence; or, preservation and transformation in Playes (1662) and Plays Never Before Printed (1668) Lara Dodds; 11. Lady Newcastle's 'Unsoiled Petticoats' and the literary reputation of Margaret Cavendish, 1652–1985 James Fitzmaurice; Politics and Reception: 12. The politics of the English civil wars in Natures Pictures Mihoko Suzuki; 13. Cavendish: The nexus among orations, power, and women intellectuals Hilda L. Smith; 14. Margaret Cavendish's sociable letter #16: Women's political obligation and independence Joanne H. Wright; New Directions: 15. Close reading (and) textual bibliography: How many parts does Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World have? Liza Blake; 16. Companions, competitors, contexts: Margaret Cavendish in women writers online Sarah Connell; 17. Cavendish studies and the digital turn Jacob Tootalian and Shawn Moore; Afterword: Margaret Cavendish: A grandmother for twenty-first century philosophy of science Siri Hustvedt.