Simulierter Gelehrtenstreit: Margaret Cavendish und die Selbstinszenierung weiblicher Autorität im 17. Jahrhundert

For Margaret Cavendish (1623?-1673), it was almost impossible to take an active part in the scholarly disputes of her time, even though she was one among very few women who, because of their social status, were able to write and publish scholarly, philosophical and literary texts. This article focuses on the strategies of self-staging and fictionalization that Cavendish uses in her numerous print publications (financed by herself) in order to inscribe herself in current philosophical debates and thus to simulate an active participation in scholarly dispute