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Margaret Cavendish’s Anthropocene Worlds
- New Literary History
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2016
- pp. 49-66
- 10.1353/nlh.2016.0004
- Article
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Critical responses to Cavendish tend to emphasize her “oppositional” and “unsystematic” approaches to natural philosophy. This article argues that Cavendish was not only more systematic than critics have suggested, but also that her approach to understanding the natural world anticipated some of the central questions of the anthropocene age. This article reads Cavendish’s