{"title":"\"No Crime to Be Bashful\": Social Anxiety in the Drama of Margaret Cavendish","authors":"J. Battis","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay will discuss the role of social anxiety in the work of Margaret Cavendish, with a particular emphasis on blushing, speechlessness, and what we would now call introversion. The bashfulness that she presents in her work as a \"crimeless defect,\" I will argue, is both a form of transgressive modesty and a reaction against environmental sensitivity. In plays such as Lady Contemplation, The Presence, and Love's Adventures, Cavendish is interested in staging various failures of communication.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"167 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay will discuss the role of social anxiety in the work of Margaret Cavendish, with a particular emphasis on blushing, speechlessness, and what we would now call introversion. The bashfulness that she presents in her work as a "crimeless defect," I will argue, is both a form of transgressive modesty and a reaction against environmental sensitivity. In plays such as Lady Contemplation, The Presence, and Love's Adventures, Cavendish is interested in staging various failures of communication.
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