The Blazing World and Other Writings
The Blazing World and Other Writings

Author: Margaret Cavendish

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1994-03-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0141904828

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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.

Paper Bodies
Paper Bodies

Author: Margaret Cavendish

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2000-01-20

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781551111735

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Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.

The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Author: Charles Harding Firth

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781294790518

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The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle: To Which Is Added the True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life / By Margaret, Duchess of Newcast
The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle: To Which Is Added the True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life / By Margaret, Duchess of Newcast

Author: Charles Harding Firth

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781375781411

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Quotidiana
Quotidiana

Author: Patrick Madden

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0803230052

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Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, "The most common actions-a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard-can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind." In Quotidiana, Patrick Madden illuminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.