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Hello again Ilana and fellow readers and thanks for trying to introduce some structure. I wonder though whether it might be best to move these more 'permanent' threads into the boxes at the top of the page?? Otherwise they will get lost in the melee
Oh and I'm Choisya, a 74 year old widow from Over the Pond who spends far too much time on these boards because I suffer from insomnia
I live on a pension so nowadays try not to spend too much on books, which means that I tend to join the discussions on ones I already have in my 4000 book libraryMessage Edited by Choisya on 12-01-200602:17 PM
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Ack! I miss being on the boards for approximately one week and look what you all are doing. I am jealous - JEALOUS, do you hear? 
- since I've been putting in overtime at work and I have a ginormous term paper due for my Restoration lit class (a little Margaret Cavendish anyone?) which leaves me NO time for fun *scowl*. Sigh. I will be lurking about in the shadows.
- since I've been putting in overtime at work and I have a ginormous term paper due for my Restoration lit class (a little Margaret Cavendish anyone?) which leaves me NO time for fun *scowl*. Sigh. I will be lurking about in the shadows.
pedsphleb wrote:
Ack! I miss being on the boards for approximately one week and look what you all are doing. I am jealous - JEALOUS, do you hear?
Tell us what the paper's on, Melissa. Speak Restoration to us....
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I am attempting ("attempting" being the operative term) to examine Cavendish's stab at "sovreignty" in her work The Blazing World, starting with Katherine Gallagher's article "Embracing the Absolute: The Politics of the Female Subject in Seventeenth-Century England." I'm also going to contrast Cavendish with Christine de Pisan (The City of Ladies) and Mary Wollstonecraft (Vindication of the Rights of Women). Cavendish belived that a woman was sovreign unto herself (in her writing, she desired a "kingdom" of her own so much she wrote TBW) because women could not vote, own property, or take the Oath of Supremacy, and therefore were not subjects of the Crown. I think there are little hints of this idea in the de Pisan and the Wollstonecraft. I have lots of reading/writing yet to do for this.
And by the way, TBW is pretty crazy and reminded me very much of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which is itself greatly indebted to John Milton's Paradise Lost. I can't find anywhere where Pullman read Cavendish (he may, in fact, have since he grew up in Wales and was educated at Oxford, I believe).
If we're talking Restoration, the drama is somewhat better and the poetry we read by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, was much more entertaining.
And by the way, TBW is pretty crazy and reminded me very much of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which is itself greatly indebted to John Milton's Paradise Lost. I can't find anywhere where Pullman read Cavendish (he may, in fact, have since he grew up in Wales and was educated at Oxford, I believe).
If we're talking Restoration, the drama is somewhat better and the poetry we read by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, was much more entertaining.
IlanaSimons wrote:
pedsphleb wrote:
Ack! I miss being on the boards for approximately one week and look what you all are doing. I am jealous - JEALOUS, do you hear?
Tell us what the paper's on, Melissa. Speak Restoration to us....
Amazing, Babyvamp! I had to look her up, which shows how much my little female mind is expanding these days.
pedsphleb wrote:
I am attempting ("attempting" being the operative term) to examine Cavendish's stab at "sovreignty" in her work The Blazing World, starting with Katherine Gallagher's article "Embracing the Absolute: The Politics of the Female Subject in Seventeenth-Century England." I'm also going to contrast Cavendish with Christine de Pisan (The City of Ladies) and Mary Wollstonecraft (Vindication of the Rights of Women). Cavendish belived that a woman was sovreign unto herself (in her writing, she desired a "kingdom" of her own so much she wrote TBW) because women could not vote, own property, or take the Oath of Supremacy, and therefore were not subjects of the Crown. I think there are little hints of this idea in the de Pisan and the Wollstonecraft. I have lots of reading/writing yet to do for this.
And by the way, TBW is pretty crazy and reminded me very much of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which is itself greatly indebted to John Milton's Paradise Lost. I can't find anywhere where Pullman read Cavendish (he may, in fact, have since he grew up in Wales and was educated at Oxford, I believe).
If we're talking Restoration, the drama is somewhat better and the poetry we read by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, was much more entertaining.
IlanaSimons wrote:
pedsphleb wrote:
Ack! I miss being on the boards for approximately one week and look what you all are doing. I am jealous - JEALOUS, do you hear?
Tell us what the paper's on, Melissa. Speak Restoration to us....
