Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Part of chapter 2 appeared in an earlier form in my article “Fighting the Kingdom of Faction in Bell in Campo,” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue (2004): 5.1–25. Much of chapter 3 is based on material used in my article “Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: Natural Art and the Body Politic,” Studies in Philology 96, no. 4 (1999): 457–79. Chapter 9 is a revised version of “Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Cultural Dialectics and the Novel,” ELH 68 (2001): 57–79. I thank the publishers for permission to use this material. I am especially grateful to Peter Young for reading and commenting on my drafts at various stages, and for being so generous with his help and his time. My work has greatly benefited from his wide knowledge of the field, and no less from his gift for finding a better way of phrasing. I would also like to thank Margarete Rubik and Paul Salzman for their constructive and encouraging comments on sections of an early draft. Attending conferences arranged by the Aphra Behn Europe Society and the Margaret Cavendish Society has given me much valuable feedback in working with the book. My research was made possible by travel grants and a year’s research leave generously provided by the University of Agder. Utopian Negotiation ...