Alexandra Bennett

Associate Professor

Educational Background

Professional Interests

Selected Publications

• “Margaret Cavendish and the Theatre of War,” reprinted in Sara Heller Mendelson, ed. Margaret Cavendish. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 103-113.
• “Filling in the Picture: Contacts and Contexts of Jane Cavendish,” Literature Compass 5 (special edition, February 2008), ed. James Fitzmaurice. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119424982
• “Testifying in the Court of Public Opinion: Margaret Cavendish Reworks The Winter’s Tale,” in Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections, ed. James Fitzmaurice and Katherine Romack. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp.86-102.
• “‘Now let my language speake’: The Authorship, Rewriting, and Audience(s) of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley,” Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 (September 2005): 3.1-13.http://www.purl.oclc.org/emls/11-2/benncav2.htm
• “Female Performativity in The Tragedy of Mariam,” reprinted online in High Beam Encyclopedia. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-63013459.html
• “ ‘Yes, And’: Margaret Cavendish, the Passions, and Hermaphrodite Agency.” In Early Modern Women Testing Ideas, ed. Paul Salzman. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, forthcoming.

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