"Reassesses the literary invention of Margaret Cavendish -- the use she makes of other writers, her own various forms of writing, and the ways in which she creates her own literary persona -- to transform our understanding of Cavendish's considerable accomplishments and influence, including her revival of an expansive model of literary invention"--

Lara Dodds is associate professor and graduate studies coordinator in the Department of English at Mississippi State University, where she has taught since 2004. Her scholarship on Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, and other early modern subjects has appeared in English Literary Renaissance, John Donne Journal, Milton Studies, Restoration, and elsewhere.