A companion to the Cavendishes

A companion to the Cavendishes

The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discus...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rutter, Tom, editor (editor), Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press 2020.
Edition:New edition
Series:Arc companions
Subjects:
Cavendish family.
Art, English > 17th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424506006719
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Cavendish Family
  • Chapter 2. George Cavendish's Historiographical Moment
  • Chapter 3. Arbella, Oriana, and the music of Michael Cavendish (1565–1628)
  • Chapter 4. The Cavendish Invention of Bolsover Castle
  • Chapter 5. William Cavendish: Amateur Professional Playwright
  • Chapter 6. William Cavendish and Elizabethan Nostalgia
  • Chapter 7. The Cavendishes and Ben Jonson
  • Chapter 8. William Cavendish: Virtue, Virtuosity and the Image of the Coutier
  • Chapter 9. Horses and Horsemanship in the Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
  • Chapter 10. Margaret Cavendish and the Cultural Milieu of Antwerp
  • Chapter 11. Epicurus and Gender in the British Newcastle Circle: Charleton, Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish
  • Chapter 12. Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's Manuscript Collections
  • Chapter 13. The Cavendishes and their Poetry
  • Chapter 14. The Closet as Form and Theme in Cavendish and Brackley's The Concealed Fancies
  • Chapter 15. Margaret Cavendish and War
  • Chapter 16. Material and Political Nature in Margaret Cavendish's The Unnatural Tragedy and the Blazing World
  • Chapter 17. “I am my Lords Scholar”: Margaret Cavendish and Patronage
  • Chapter 18. Margaret Cavendish and Julius Caesar
  • Chapter 19. Generic Bricolage and Epicureanism in Margaret Cavendish's Imaginative Works
  • Chapter 20. Cavendish and the Novel
  • Chapter 21. The Devonshire Cavendishes: Politics and Place
  • Chapter 22. The Funeral Monuments of the Cavendish Family
  • Index.

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