Margaret Cavendish

The Blazing World and Other Writings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141904825
• Artikelnr.: 38134690

Autorenporträt

Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73), became a Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria, travelling with her into Parisian exile in 1644. There, she married William Cavendish, Marquis (later Duke) of Newcastle. Between 1653 and 1668 Margaret Cavendish published a dozen substantial books including poetry, moral tales, speculative fiction, romance, scientific treatises, natural philosophy, familiar letters, closet drama, orations, an autobiographical memoir and a biography of her husband. The sheer quantity and variety of Cavendish's published writing was unprecedented amongst earlier English women.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Margaret Cavendish
POETRY FROM POEMS AND FANCIES
Of Many Worlds in this World
The Soul's Garment
Of Stars
Motion Directs, While Atoms Dance
Motion Makes Atoms a Bawd for Figure
Nature Calls a Council, Which is Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life To Advise About Making the World
A Dialogue Betwixt Riches and Poverty
Of the Ant
Of the Knowledge of Beasts
Of Fish
Earth's Complaint
The Clasp
The Hunting of the Hare
Nature's Oven
Nature's [Wine] Cellar
A Dialogue Between an Oak, and a Man Cutting it Down
from 'A Dialogue betwixt Birds'
STORIES
The Blazing World
The Travelling Spirits
The Ambitious Traitor
Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
PROSE
from Orations of Diverse Sorts
from Sociable Letters
from 'A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life'
PLAYS
The Unnatural Tragedy
The Convent of Pleasure
Explanatory Notes