Utopian negotiation : Aphra Behn & Margaret Cavendish / Oddvar Holmesland.
Holmesland, Oddvar.
2013
PR3317.Z5 H65 2013eb
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Title Utopian negotiation : Aphra Behn & Margaret Cavendish / Oddvar Holmesland.
Author Holmesland, Oddvar.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780815652083 (electronic book)
9780815633129
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 347 pages)
Call Number PR3317.Z5 H65 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 828/.409
Summary Aphra Behn (1640-1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) were two of the boldest women authors of seventeenth century England. They made gestures toward a utopian future involving female emancipation and gender agreement, but depicted a world too complex for simple answers. In the first book-length exploration of the two authors together, Holmesland reevaluates the nature of utopianism in the writings of both, considering a wide range of their literary output. Both writers try to avoid fixed positions, exploring areas in between, seeking mediating solutions through "utopian negotiation." Requiring more equal gender relations, for instance, they challenge patriarchalism; however, while seeking to redefine the heroic code of honor, idealizing gentleness in men, they call for a femininity with heroic resources. Aspiring to such ideals of male-female mutuality, both authors extend this thinking to their view of the body politic. Capacious in scope, this book illuminates the work of two ground-breaking writers, and in doing so, gives them a much deserved, wider audience."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index.
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Introduction : Negotiating Utopia
Bell in Campo and The Female Academy (1662)
Female Wit in the "Theatre of Warr"
The Blazing World (1666) : "Nature tends to Unity"
The Convent of Pleasure (1668)
Cross-gendering Negotiation
Transitions
A Voyage to the Isle of Love (1684) and Lycidus (1688)
A "Truce" with "Unhappy Eyes"
"The Golden Age" (1684) : Feminized Reciprocity as Social Model
The Emperor of the Moon (1687)
Common Sense, Natural Vision, and Tempered Utopianism
Oroonoko (1688) : The Crisis of Ideologies in Restoration England
The Widow Ranter (1689) and The Rover (1677)
Honor in the New World
Conclusion.

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