Book Announcement: Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Title: Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Volume Editors: Lisa Walters and Brandie Siegfried Publisher: Cambridge University Press Margaret Cavendish's prolific and wide-ranging contributions to seventeenth-century intellectual culture are impossible to contain within the discrete confines of modern academic disciplines. Paying attention to the innovative uses of genre through which she enhanced and complicated her writings both within literature and beyond, this collection addresses her oeuvre and offers the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource on Cavendish's works to date. The astonishing breadth of her varied intellectual achievements is reflected through elegantly arranged sections on History of Science, Philosophy, Literature, Politics and…
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Arline Custer Memorial Award call for submissions

Arline Custer Memorial Award DEADLINE: July 31, 2022 The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. Eligibility The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Works under consideration include, but are not limited to: monographs, popular narratives, reference…
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