Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies and Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Infinity

Sokol, B. J.. 2003. Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies and Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Infinity. In: Stephen Clucas, ed. A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 151-163. ISBN 978-0754604648 [Book Section]

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Margaret Cavendish was probably one of the first women to fashion herself as an author. Her scholarly acceptance has been uneasy, but, as these essays aim to show, rather than self-absorbed or lacking in method, her own high-flying Phancies are the self-legitimating grounds of her discourse.

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Book Section

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English and Comparative Literature

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2003Published

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13494

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21 Sep 2015 09:19

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26 Jun 2017 10:39

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13494

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