The mechanist-vitalist soul of Margaret Cavendish.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Stevenson, Jay
- Source
- Studies in English Literature (Rice). Summer96, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p527. 17p.
- Subject
- *CRITICISM
- Language
- ISSN
- 0039-3657
Attempts to historicize philosopher Margaret Cavendish's self-destabilization by recovering some of the overlooked content of her philosophy. Challenge posed by Cavendish's acentric writing to historicists interested in tracing connections between subjectivity and hegemony; Cavendish's career history; Cavendish's atomic determinism.