Margaret Cavendish

The Blazing World and Other Writings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1666, "The Blazing World", is both one of the first novels written in English and one of the earliest works of science fiction. This utopian classic, by Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, is also one of the earliest works by an English woman. Cavendish was an outspoken feminist, at a time when such ideas were virtually unheard of, and a pioneering advocate for a more modern view of gender roles and equality. "The Blazing World" is a surreal and experimental work that describes a fanciful and utopian society that may be reached through the North Pole. A young lady enters this new world and discovers a society full of various kinds of talking animals. She plans an invasion of her old world with the help of fish men, bird men, submarines, and weapons of flaming stone. Part travel memoir and part romance, "The Blazing World" is a wildly creative novel that imagines a world with entirely new ideas of gender, race, and class that were a radical departure from the norms of the seventeenth-century. Also included in this volume are two other works by Cavendish, "The Contract" and "Assaulted and Pursued Chastity".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neeland Media LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781420971392
• Artikelnr.: 60882976

Autorenporträt

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.

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