Margaret Cavendish’s Femmes Fortes: The Paradoxes of Female Heroism in Bell in Campo (1662)
This paper proposes to read Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo (1662) in the light of Pierre Le Moyne’s Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647). It shows how this celebration of women’s high deeds sheds an interesting light on the the ambiguous staging of female heroism in Bell in Campo: like the French J...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2016-12-01
|
| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/800 |