Family Politics in Early Modern Literature by Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis

By Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis

This booklet considers the ways in which relations relationships (parental, marital, sibling or different) mimic, and stand in for, political ones within the Early glossy interval, and vice versa. Bringing jointly prime foreign students in literary-historical fields to supply scholarship trained through the point of view of up to date politics, the quantity examines the ways that the kin defines itself in transformative moments of strength drawback – delivery and dying, maturation, marriage – moments while the family members is negotiating its place inside of and during broader cultural frameworks, and whilst, for this reason, kinfolk ‘politics’ turn into such a lot apparent.

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13.  20. , The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-­Upon-­ Tyne (London: Longman, Green, 1910), Douglas Grant, Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623–1673 (London: Hart-Davis, 1957), Sara Mendelson, The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), and my ‘Convents and Pleasures: Margaret Cavendish and the Drama of Property’, Renaissance Drama 32 (2003), 177–223. 15. On her circulation of her work, see my entry on ‘Margaret Cavendish’ in the Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, eds.

40 (1990), 93–120. On William Cavendish’s Letter to Charles II, see William Cavendish, Ideology and Politics on the Eve of Restoration: Newcastle’s Advice to Charles II, transcribed and ed.  Slaughter (The American Philosophical Society, 1984), Conal Condren, ‘Casuistry to Newcastle: ‘The Prince’ in the World of the Book’ in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, edited by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993), pp. 164–186, and Hilda Smith, ‘“A General War Amongst the Men… but None amongst the Women”: Political Differences between Margaret and William Cavendish’ in Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays Presented to Lois Green Schwoerer, ed.

553–554, emphasis added.  63–72, esp.  70. 20. James Fitzmaurice, ‘Margaret Cavendish on Her Own Writing: Evidence from Revision and Handmade Correction’. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol.  297–307. In a prefatory letter to her husband, she states that she will not ‘mention any thing or passage to the prejudice or disgrace of any family or particular person’ in her work (sig. aii), and in the volume itself, she inked out two sections that seem to be in corrective keeping with this promise: one that claimed that William’s troops stayed on duty during Bishops’ wars in spite of King’s failure to provide pay and one that accused Lord Goring and Sir Francis Mackworth of ‘invigilancy and carelessness’.

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