Utopian negotiation: Aphra Behn & Margaret Cavendish

Introduction : Negotiating Utopia

Bell in Campo and The Female Academy (1662)

Female Wit in the "Theatre of Warr"

The Blazing World (1666) : "Nature tends to Unity"

The Convent of Pleasure (1668)

Cross-gendering Negotiation

Transitions

A Voyage to the Isle of Love (1684) and Lycidus (1688)

A "Truce" with "Unhappy Eyes"

"The Golden Age" (1684) : Feminized Reciprocity as Social Model

The Emperor of the Moon (1687)

Common Sense, Natural Vision, and Tempered Utopianism

Oroonoko (1688) : The Crisis of Ideologies in Restoration England

The Widow Ranter (1689) and The Rover (1677)

Honor in the New World

Conclusion.