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Margaret Cavendish - The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World - 9781554812424 - V9781554812424
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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World

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Description for The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World Paperback. First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. This Broadview Edition includes related historical materials on the new science and Cavendish's role in the intellectual world of her time. Editor(s): Mendelson, Sara. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
First published in 1666›››, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing World, Cavendish depicts her heroine, theEmpress, in multiple roles. The Empress is leader of a dreamlike utopian world reachable through the North Pole, filled with talking animals and intelligent hybrid creatures. She establishes a royal society of scientists, initiates learned conferences, interrogates existing knowledge, and spends her days speculating on natural philosophy. She also forms a lively intellectual collaboration with the “Duchess of Newcastle,” a female character summoned ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Broadview Editions
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781554812424
SKU
V9781554812424
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About Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c. 1573 - 1676›•›) was a British prose writer, poet, playwright, and philosopher.. Sara H. Mendelson teaches in the Arts and Science program at McMaster University. She is the co-editor, with the late Sylvia Bowerbank, of Broadview’s Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader.

Reviews for The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
“Sara Mendelson’s welcome new edition presents a comprehensive reading of Cavendish’s audacious ‘theory of everything.’ Adding over twenty-five new voices to criticism of the text, while retaining her distinctive discussions of Bacon’s and Behn’s relevance to Cavendish’s work, Mendelson builds on the strong foundation of the Paper Bodies edition. She offers robust new explanations of Cavendish’s inventive work with genre, ... Read more

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