This is the description of "The New Blazing World" (1666) - one of the earliest pieces of science fiction writing. It attempts, in the manner of contemporary utopian fantasies, to tell the story of a voyage to another world where speculative science reigns.
This is the description of "The New Blazing World" (1666) - one of the earliest pieces of science fiction writing. It attempts, in the manner of contemporary utopian fantasies, to tell the story of a voyage to another world where speculative science reigns.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673). A Royalist during English Civil War, Margaret Lucas was Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1643 to 1645. She wrote a total of fourteen works on a broad selection of topics: scientific and philosophical treatises, science fiction, a biography, an autobiography, essays, letters, poetry, "orations", and several plays. Kate Lilley was born in Perth. She completed her doctorate on Masculine Elegy at the University of London and went on to postdoctoral research at St Hilda's College, Oxford as the Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow. She now teaches Literary History and Critical Theory at the University of Sydney. She has published many essays on contemporary Australian and American poetry, especially the work of John Tranter, and on 17th century women's writing.
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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
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
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