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Torrey Shanks

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Sep 2026

Warring Words: Ornatus and Gender in Cavendish and Hobbes

This essay engages with Quentin Skinner’s Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by extending its insights on the importance of ornatus , which lends beauty and force to oratory, to Margaret Cavendish’s The Female Academy . Understanding this comedic play about women’s relationship to rhetoric, educa...

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