5Margaret Cavendish - An Apology For Writing So Much & The Hunting of the Hare PDF

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Margaret Cavendish She was a rebel in terms of her life and work. She was a woman writing in this period She wrote in poetry, prose and drama She fancied herself a scientist, doing studies She was publishing, which was also unusual, as she was an aristocra woman. Most aristocrats sent their works out in manuscripts in differen She often used her own money to publish lavish editions of he work She was known as an eccentric She dressed, acted, and was fairly ‘different' She sometimes dressed as a man or in outlandish costumes An Apology for Writing So Much . . . Comes from Poems and Fancies This is a poem that is metapoetic It is a poem about writing a poem She articulates the anxieties of authorship She is anxious about the reception of her work She is aware of her image; she is not just a public figure writin friends, but is writing publicly, and publishing it She is also reflecting on her work There is a disconnect on how you view your work, and how th audience does She writes a poem that is quite common It is simple and straightforward There is the poem and her public being imagined The book is also imagined She does not apologize for the act of writing, but apologizes for drawing to attention to the book She feels the need to not only write, but write about her writing The central image is a bird in the nest with babies She figures herself as a mother (even though she herself had not chi This book is her child This is appropriate as she gestures to her femininity It naturalizes herself and her book By bringing it back to nature and maternity, this helps her imag some extent...