Imperial dreams? Margaret Cavendish and the cult of Elizabeth

Jowitt, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5232-7003 (1997) Imperial dreams? Margaret Cavendish and the cult of Elizabeth. Women's Writing, 4 (3). pp. 383-399. ISSN 0969-9082

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Abstract

Margaret Cavendish appropriated images of Elizabeth I in order to how her support for an imperialist England and to question the status Restoration society awarded to women. During the seventeenth century hagiographic representations of Elizabeth I were increasingly used to criticise the policies and personalities of the Stuart monarchs. William Cavendish, for example, harked back to England's glorious past under Elizabeth in order to inculcate in Charles II's government expansionist and imperialist policies. Margaret Cavendish in The Blazing World demonstrates similar concerns but Cavendish's work is also interested in using representations of Elizabeth I as a way of exploring both the disenfranchisement of women and, I argue, the possibility of female empowerment.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2016 00:15
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2022 02:50
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59941
DOI:	10.1080/09699089700200019

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