The literary invention of Margaret Cavendish [electronic resource] / Lara Dodds.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading and writing in sociable letters; or, how Margaret Cavendish read her Plutarch -- "Poor Donne was out": reading and writing Donne in the works of William and Margaret Cavendish -- When Margaret Cavendish reads John Milton; or, reading and writing in tragical times -- Margaret Cavendish and the ends of utopia -- The wife compares Jonson and the other youth: Shakespearean and Jonsonian influence in playes (1662) -- The English literary tradition and mechanical natural philosophy in plays, never before printed (1668) -- Afterword: "work, lady, work": women writers, reputation, and English literature.

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